{"id":117479,"date":"2018-10-11T10:48:24","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T14:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=117479"},"modified":"2018-10-11T10:48:24","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T14:48:24","slug":"canada-and-india-are-drs-third-and-fourth-largest-importers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/10\/11\/canada-and-india-are-drs-third-and-fourth-largest-importers\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada and India are DR\u2019s third and fourth largest importers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_117461\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-117461\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-117461\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Fernando-Gonzalez-El-Dia-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"212\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-117461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fernando Gonz\u00e1lez Nicol\u00e1s \/ El D\u00eda<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dominicans export more to Commonwealth Countries than is imported, according to Fernando Gonz\u00e1lez Nicol\u00e1s, president of the Commonwealth Roundtable in the Dominican Republic when speaking during the Embassy of Canada Thanksgivings Day luncheon on Monday, 8 October 2018. The event is organized by the Canadian Dminican Chamber of Commerce (Canchamrd).<\/p>\n<p>He said Dominican exports in 2017 were US$1.67 billion, while imports were US$1.39 billion, with a surplus of US$283 million for the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n<p>Commonwealth countries Canada and India are the country\u2019s third and fourth largest importers. Canada purchased US$786 million in 2017, and India US$578 million. The United States and Haiti are the country\u2019s two largest markets.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, Gonz\u00e1lez Nicol\u00e1s says that Commonwealth countries have the main mining companies in the world. He said there is an environmental protection awareness and the main financial institutions of the world are located.<\/p>\n<p>Gonz\u00e1lez Nicol\u00e1s highlighted that the roundtable seeks to promote bilateral economic, trade, social and cultural relations with the country and 53 countries that make up the Commonwealth around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Also speaking at the event, Foreign Minister Miguel Vargas highlighted that Canadian investments in the Dominican Republic are now around US$4.98 billion and total trade is US$1.07 billion in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/economia\/republica-dominicana-tiene-una-balanza-comercial-favorable-con-paises-de-la-mancomunidad-BB10990032\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diario Libre<\/a><\/p>\n<p>11 October 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominicans export more to Commonwealth Countries than is imported, according to Fernando Gonz\u00e1lez Nicol\u00e1s, president of the Commonwealth Roundtable in the Dominican Republic when speaking during the Embassy of Canada Thanksgivings Day luncheon on Monday, 8 October 2018. The event is organized by the Canadian Dminican Chamber of Commerce (Canchamrd). He said Dominican exports in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/10\/11\/canada-and-india-are-drs-third-and-fourth-largest-importers\/\" 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":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117479"}],"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=117479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}