I've found very little worth the time, effort and expense to ship to the DR. We have no special food needs, most electronics and appliances are best bought here and we are not interested in importing another vehicle. For the rest there's the whole shipping through Miami schtick which with few exceptions is reserved for the odd Amazon type purchase, and if that was not an option I would not miss it. I travel enough and have enough friends doing the same that there's usually a way to bootleg smaller items and with all this patience is a virtue. Rarely, and I can't think of anything, that was bought here has worked out just as well as if it was purchased and used in Europe or NA. The only positive of shipping stuff is more variety and more up-to-date options but that's it. Not an issue for me and us.
The only things worth shipping to me and mine is items for resale shipped down in the blue barrels and family outside of the DR offer and handle all of that for us and I just pay lol