{"id":146771,"date":"2020-09-10T02:17:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T06:17:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=146771"},"modified":"2020-09-10T09:33:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T13:33:33","slug":"dominican-exports-up-7-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/09\/10\/dominican-exports-up-7-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominican exports up 7.6%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"270\" height=\"75\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/CEIRD-logo.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-124198\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Center for Export and Investment of the Dominican Republic (CEI-RD) says that Dominican exports increased by 7.6% year-on-year in August 2020 compared to the same period in 2019, reaching the figure of $895.6 million, according to data published by the Customs Agency (DGA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Official statistics show that August is the first month when an increase in exports is reported since March when the first Covid-19 case was reported in the Dominican Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Biviana Riveiro Disla, director of the CEI-RD, says the August numbers break five months of decline in exports. She is optimistic actions by the new government will bring new stability and an economic turnaround.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the Dominican Republic&#8217;s main trading partners, countries such as Canada stand out, which experienced growth of over 1000%, Switzerland with growth of over 60%, the Netherlands and Germany with similar growth. Gold exports lead Dominican exports in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ceird.gob.do\/Noticias\/NoticiasDetalle?IdNoticia=69\">CEI-RD<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 September 2020 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Center for Export and Investment of the Dominican Republic (CEI-RD) says that Dominican exports increased by 7.6% year-on-year in August 2020 compared to the same period in 2019, reaching the figure of $895.6 million, according to data published by the Customs Agency (DGA). Official statistics show that August is the first month when an &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2020\/09\/10\/dominican-exports-up-7-6\/\" 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\/146771"}],"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=146771"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146807,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146771\/revisions\/146807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}