To diversify export markets, the Export and Investment Center of the Dominican Republic (ProDominicana) announces a Strategic Business Round for Friday, 13 October 2023, from 9am to 4pm for international buyers and to 5pm in person from the ProDominicana headquarters in Santo Domingo.
Priority is being given to regional buyers in Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Suriname, Panama, Cuba, Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, Colombia, Guyana, among others.
The executive director of ProDominicana, Biviana Riveiro invited exporters to register with ProDominicana. “We are enabling more and better spaces to get closer to strategic markets and for our clients to sit shoulder to shoulder with us, day by day, business after business, export after export,” said Riveiro.
She highlighted the Dominican government and all entities linked to the promotion of exports have been deploying multiple initiatives and facilitation of services or platforms to expand business and connectivity with the Caribbean region as a whole. “The National Export Promotion Plan 2020-2030 integrates a battery of measures focused on the Caribbean region and the markets that we prioritize in this Round,” Riveiro said.
Among the actions that are being deployed to strengthen commercial relations with the Caribbean, the following stand out: presidential visits to and from Guyana, the visit of the Dominican Vice President Raquel Peña in Puerto Rico, the meeting of the governor of Puerto Rico in the Dominican Republic, the trade missions with Jamaica and the Bahamas, as well as participation in the Export TT Fair, in Trinidad and Tobago.
Work is ongoing within the Caribbean Connectivity initiative, a tool that allows for strengthening the Dominican Republic’s export sector and commercial relations with the Caribbean, boosting the frequency of shipments to that area, opening new markets and promoting consolidation of cargo loads.
The products to be offered to the different markets include textiles, construction materials, cement, iron bars, agricultural and agro-industrial products, plastics, beverages, boxes, cylinders, fertilizers, eggs, chicken and perishable items, among others.
The effort comes at a time when the Dominican government seeks new markets for Dominican goods that were marketed to Haiti. Trade with Haiti is unstable given the ongoing multidimensional crisis in that country.
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Presidency
9 October 2023