The purpose of the ZOLIC Organic Law is to promote the industrial and commercial development of Guatemala in the Santo Tomás de Castilla Free Zone and the Special Public Economic Development Zones (ZDEEP).
These are geographically delimited extra-customs areas, supervised by ZOLIC, where imports from the National Customs Territory or from abroad are allowed, as well as transfers to any other bonded warehouse, to other customs regimes, ports, borders and airports in the country, as well as exports both to the National Customs Territory and abroad.