{"id":10769,"date":"2024-09-29T22:07:31","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T22:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmklawyers.com\/?p=10769"},"modified":"2024-09-29T22:07:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T22:07:34","slug":"free-zone-imports-reached-us3395-20-million-according-to-dga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmklawyers.com\/en\/free-zone-imports-reached-us3395-20-million-according-to-dga\/","title":{"rendered":"Free zone imports reached US$3,395.20 million according to DGA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
At the end of the January-August 2024 period, imports under the free zone regime increased by around US$3,395.20 million, showing a fall of -0.80% compared to last year, according to the “Dominican Republic Trade Magazine August 2024”, released by the General Directorate of Customs (DGA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The publication shows that plastic materials and manufacture accounted for 22.96% of imports, followed by fine precious pearls with 14.77%, electrical machines and appliances with 9.64%, tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes with 8.89%, machines and mechanical appliances with 7.63%, among others.\u00a0Key to Chart:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n A fact worth noting is that ” raw materials imports included consumer goods which accounted for 0.72% and capital goods for 6.65%,” the document highlights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the other hand, of 10 selected countries, both the United States and China register the highest import percentages where the USA accounted for approximately 34.28% and exports of 61.1%, while China accounted for 17.73% and exports 9.7%, above Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, Colombia, Trinidad and Tobago, Japan and Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n However, the report states that for the period January-August 2024 in the Dominican Republic about 82.57% of imports from free zones are concentrated in at least five provinces: Santo Domingo, San Crist\u00f3bal, Santiago, San Pedro de Macor\u00eds and La Romana, the rest representing 17.43%. “69.15% of the total of these imports entered by sea, 30.44% by air, while the remaining 0.41% by land,” the publication states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At the end of the January-August 2024 period, imports under the free zone regime increased by around US$3,395.20 million, showing a fall of -0.80% compared to last year, according to the “Dominican Republic Trade Magazine August 2024”, released by the General Directorate…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":10767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[149],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investment-in-dr"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n