{"id":145340,"date":"2020-08-13T01:50:08","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T05:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=145340"},"modified":"2020-08-13T10:39:44","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T14:39:44","slug":"dr-exports-6-72-less-but-imports-20-17-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/08\/13\/dr-exports-6-72-less-but-imports-20-17-less\/","title":{"rendered":"DR exports 6.72% less, but imports 20.17% less"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"720\" height=\"530\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Puerto-de-Manzanillo-Autoridad-Portuaria-Dominicana.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-132382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Puerto-de-Manzanillo-Autoridad-Portuaria-Dominicana.jpg 720w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/Puerto-de-Manzanillo-Autoridad-Portuaria-Dominicana-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Dominican exports for the most part continued, despite the National State of Emergency the country has undergone since March. Exports were down, but imports were down three-fold. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Customs Agency reports that imports for January to July 2020 were US$9.56 billion, or 20.17% less than for the same period in 2019. Excluding petroleum imports, the decline was 13.73%. Customs said that of the total imports, 21.33% were duty-free imports for free zone manufacturing. Of the total, 47.75% were consumer goods, 34.19% raw materials and 18.06% capital goods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imports were from the United States (34.27%) and the People\u2019s Republic of China (18.03%). There were also large amounts of imports from Mexico (4.86%), Spain (4.28%), Brazil (2.86), Colombia (2.51%), Germany (2.32%), Japan (2.27%), Netherlands (2.06%), Trinidad &amp; Tobago (1.92%).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Exports were down less. The Customs Agency said that total exports for January-July 2020 were US$5.37 billion, that is 6.72% less than in 2019. Of the total, 58.32% were exported by duty-free export manufacturing companies. Of the total exported, 41.78% was raw material, 35.46% consumer goods, 22.76% capital goods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main Dominican exports were in the categories of:<br>Pearls, stones and precious metals 43.99%<br>Iron and steelwork 11.75%<br>Sugar and sweets 6.03%<br>Plastic and manufactured plastic goods 5.53%<br>Fruits and comestibles 5.37%<br>Cacao and byproducts 3.31%<br>Salt, Sulphur, land and stones 1.80%<br>Food preparations 1.67%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The main markets for Dominican exports were Switzerland (24.70%), United States (16.32%), Canada (12.84%), Haiti (11.48%), Puerto Rico (5.27%), India (4.60%), Netherlands (3.85%), China (3.68%, South Korea (2.46), Jamaica (1.67%). Chinese exports declined from US$153.87 million in 2019 to US$75.17 million for the same Jan-July period in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aduanas.gob.do\/estadisticas\/informes-boletines\/\">Customs Agency <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>12 August 2020<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominican exports for the most part continued, despite the National State of Emergency the country has undergone since March. Exports were down, but imports were down three-fold. The Customs Agency reports that imports for January to July 2020 were US$9.56 billion, or 20.17% less than for the same period in 2019. Excluding petroleum imports, the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/08\/13\/dr-exports-6-72-less-but-imports-20-17-less\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[271,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145340"}],"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=145340"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":145386,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145340\/revisions\/145386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}