Think of the Immokalee Regional Airport (IMM) as an island of international free trade in a see of regulations and tariffs. 

That's exactly what role the 60-acre airport, industrial park and business incubator plays on the stage of international trade and commerce. 

Doing business at the airport, having a business at the Immokalee Regional Airport, means business owners operate in an international free trade zone. Dollars, Euros, pesos all flow freely absent of some tariffs and with reduced tariffs in other commercial spheres. 

Say, for example, a business owner assembles photo-voltaic cells and panels for clean energy. But the materials for those panels must come from Europe or the Caribbean or South America. The business owners must pay tariffs on those raw materials as he or she imports them into the United States for assembly at the plant. 

But if the plant is located at the Immokalee Regional Airport, there are greatly reduced tariffs, some eliminated completely, on the import of the raw materials. That's a huge savings for the clean energy entrepreneur. 

The benefits of running a business in a free trade zone are too numerous to mention here but you can read more about the advantages of Immokalee business here at the Foreign Trade Resource Center. Or, call the Immokalee Community Redevelopment Agency, 239-252-2313. Immokalee is Florida's 21st Century!