{"id":542180,"date":"2026-05-14T11:56:05","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T08:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=542180"},"modified":"2026-05-14T12:38:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:38:46","slug":"residents-of-free-economic-zones-reduce-revenue-and-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/residents-of-free-economic-zones-reduce-revenue-and-profit","title":{"rendered":"Residents Of Free Economic Zones Reduce Revenue And Profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The economic performance of residents of Belarus\u2019 free economic zones worsened in the first quarter, according to fresh data from Belstat.<\/p>\n<p>Total sales revenue of FEZ residents decreased by 1.2% to 9.87 billion rubles. Their net profit fell by 34.8% to 378.2 million rubles.<\/p>\n<p>Industrial output declined by 3.2% to 9.15 billion rubles.<\/p>\n<p>FEZ residents also reduced investment in fixed capital. It fell by 15.5% to 623.8 million rubles.<\/p>\n<p>Exports of goods from the FEZs increased by 6.1% in the first quarter to $2.06 billion, while exports of services rose by 16.3% to $27.15 million.<\/p>\n<p>The number of FEZ residents decreased by five over the year and stood at 428 as of April 1, 2026. Of these, 415 were active residents, four fewer than a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>The average number of employees fell by 1.9% to 133,300 people. At the same time, their average salary increased by 9.4% to 2,834 rubles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The economic performance of residents of Belarus\u2019 free economic zones worsened in the first quarter, according to fresh data from Belstat. Total sales revenue of FEZ residents decreased by 1.2% to 9.87 billion rubles. Their net profit fell by 34.8% to 378.2 million rubles. Industrial output declined by 3.2% to 9.15 billion rubles. FEZ residents [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":542179,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a05982a04a5c.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Residents Of Free Economic Zones Reduce Revenue And Profit"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-542180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-business"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/542179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}