The new Decree-Law stipulated that the Manaus Free Trade Zone would have a radius of 10 km (6.2 mi) with an industrial center as well as an agricultural center and that these would be given the economic means to allow for regional development in order to lift the Amazon out of the economic isolation that it had fallen into at that time.
O novo decreto-lei estipulava que a Zona de Comércio Livre de Manaus teria um raio de 10 km, com um centro industrial, bem como um centro agrícola e que estes iriam receber meios económicos para permitirem o desenvolvimento regional e retirarem a Amazónia do isolamento económico em que tinha caído naquela altura.