| Country, region |  
   Goals for creating SEZs |  
   Features of applying SEZs |  
   Importance for the national economy |  
  
 
   
   | PRC |  
   Creation of new effective organizational forms for the development of industrial production and entrepreneurship and promotion of the national economy  |  
   Wide state support, including an advertising and information campaign, soft loans, tariffs for resource provision |  
   High |  
  
 
   
   | USA |  
   Improving competitiveness of industry in the world market, reducing costs |  
   SEZs are mainly in the form of foreign trade zones, technology parks, business zones |  
   Average |  
  
 
   
   | Russian Federation |  
   Attraction of modern technologies and foreign investments, international cooperation in production of technically complex products |  
   There are 25 SEZs of four types: 9 SEZs of industrial-production type; 6 SEZ of technical-innovation type; 9 SEZ of tourist-recreational type, 1 port SEZ. They set up labor productivity and import substitution |  
   Average |  
  
 
   
   | Dominican Republic |  
   Obtaining benefits for preferential access to the markets of developed countries, especially the USA |  
   They form large production capacities in segments previously dependent on agricultural products |  
   High |  
  
 
   
   | Egypt |  
   Ensuring export-oriented diversification of the raw material economy |  
   They provide multi-structure and modern industrialization of the economy |  
   High |