{"id":11516,"date":"2025-06-16T00:45:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T00:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dmklawyers.com\/?p=11516"},"modified":"2025-06-16T00:45:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T00:45:36","slug":"foreign-investment-increases-7-1-in-the-first-quarter-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmklawyers.com\/en\/foreign-investment-increases-7-1-in-the-first-quarter-of-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign investment increases 7.1% in the first quarter of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
In the first quarter of 2025, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows totaled US$1,362.7 million, about US$90.6 million more compared to the same period in 2024 when figures were US$1,272.1 million, meaning an increase of 7.1%. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Central Bank estimates that by the end of this year, FDI will exceed US$ 4,700 million and the country’s Export and Investment Center (ProDominicana) forecasts that 2025 will see a sustained growth in investments in key sectors such as tourism, renewable energy, free zones, mining and transportation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
ProDominicana indicates on its Prointeligencia portal that there are more than 700 foreign companies installed in the country and the total FDI stock is US$56,000 million. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Data from the Central Bank indicate that during January-March 2025, foreign exchange income in the DR from exports of goods, tourism, remittances, FDI and other income from services, amounted to US$11,983.4 million, corresponding to US$795.8 million (7.1%) more year-on-year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In detail<\/strong>: total exports in the first quarter were US$3,442.8 million, that is, an additional US$370.6 million (12.1%) compared to the same period in 2024. While tourism revenues were US$3,250.4 million, an increase of US$57.9 million (1.8%) and family remittances of US$2,962.8 million, an increase of US$327.2 million (12.4%), remittances in April were US$954.6 million. <\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2024, FDI attraction was US$4,523.2 million, a year-on-year growth of 3%. 28.4% of these resources were directed to tourism, 25.2% to energy, and 17.6% to real estate, among others. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The United States remained the main issuer of FDI, with investments of US$1,161.9 million, followed by Spain with US$1,126.0 million, Brazil (US$229.2 million), Canada (US$207.4 million) and Panama (US$192.2 million). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the first quarter of 2025, Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows totaled US$1,362.7 million, about US$90.6 million more compared to the same period in 2024 when figures were US$1,272.1 million, meaning an increase of 7.1%. The Central Bank estimates that by the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":11514,"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-11516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investment-in-dr"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n