{"id":102277,"date":"2017-08-02T09:20:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T13:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=102277"},"modified":"2017-08-02T09:20:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T13:20:10","slug":"efforts-to-launch-country-brand-resumed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/08\/02\/efforts-to-launch-country-brand-resumed\/","title":{"rendered":"Efforts to launch country brand resumed"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_102322\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-102322\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-102322\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Luis-Henry-Molina-CEI-RD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-102322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Luis Henry Molina, CEI-RD<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Industry, Commerce and Small Business Minister Nelson Toca Sim\u00f3, Tourism Minister Francisco Javier Garc\u00eda and the director of the Center for Exports and Investment (CEI-RD) Luis Henry Molina signed an agreement to relaunch the national country brand strategy, attract new exports and promote exports. The agreement was signed during the 1 August 2017 meeting of the board of the CEI-RD that gathers representatives of the public and private sector.<\/p>\n<p>Toca Sim\u00f3 said exports and investments are a priority of the present government. Javier called the agreement a win for the Dominican Republic. Molina said that the agreement is part of the initiatives of the government to promote exports and attract investments.<\/p>\n<p>Also present for the meeting of the CEI-RD board were: Economy Minister Isidoro Santana; the director of the National Council of Export Free Zones, Luisa Fern\u00e1ndez; the executive vice president of the National Business Council (Conep), C\u00e9sar Dargam; the president of the Dominican Exporters Association (Adoexpo), \u00c1lvaro Sousa; the executive director of the Dominican Agribusiness Council (JAD), Claudia Chez; and the executive director of the National Competitiveness Council (CNC) Rafael Paz.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mic.gob.do\/noticias\/ministros-firman-acuerdo-para-impulsar-estrategia-marca-pais-atraer-turismo-inversiones-y-promover-exportaciones\" target=\"_blank\">Ministry of Industry &amp; Commerce<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/economia\/turismo\/firman-acuerdo-para-impulsar-a-republica-dominicana-como-marca-pais-IL7782794\" target=\"_blank\">Diario Libre<\/a><\/p>\n<p>2 August 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industry, Commerce and Small Business Minister Nelson Toca Sim\u00f3, Tourism Minister Francisco Javier Garc\u00eda and the director of the Center for Exports and Investment (CEI-RD) Luis Henry Molina signed an agreement to relaunch the national country brand strategy, attract new exports and promote exports. The agreement was signed during the 1 August 2017 meeting of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2017\/08\/02\/efforts-to-launch-country-brand-resumed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102277"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}