Dubai presents international business with a wide range of opportunities for different activities and operations, including:
• Trade
• Transport and distribution
• Manufacturing and processing
• Regional offices
The Market
As the leading regional trading hub, Dubai offers access to a market of outstanding potential for overseas companies in a wide range of sectors. Among its key characteristics are:
• A large market - Dubai has more than $17 billion in domestic imports annually; gateway to a $150 billion per annum, 1.4 billion population regional import market
• A growing market - Dubai's imports have more than doubled since 1989
• A prosperous market - Dubai has strategic location at the heart of one of the world's richest regions
• A diversified market - Dubai has wide import requirements; opportunities for suppliers of most products; It has an open market with no exchange controls, quotas or trade barriers.
The Business Environment
Dubai offers incoming business all the advantages of a highly developed economy. Its infrastructure and services match the highest international standards, facilitating efficiency, quality and service. Among the benefits are:
• Free enterprise system.
• Highly developed transport infrastructure.
• State-of-the-art telecommunications.
• Sophisticated financial and services sector.
• Top international exhibition and conference venue.
• High quality office and residential accommodation.
• Reliable power, utilities etc.
• First class hotels, hospitals, schools, shop
• Cosmopolitan lifestyle.
