{"id":152035,"date":"2021-01-11T06:40:35","date_gmt":"2021-01-11T10:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=152035"},"modified":"2021-01-11T08:57:46","modified_gmt":"2021-01-11T12:57:46","slug":"customs-agency-says-collections-are-on-a-roll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/01\/11\/customs-agency-says-collections-are-on-a-roll\/","title":{"rendered":"Customs Agency says collections are on a roll"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Direccion-General-de-Aduanas-Acento-e1610367530752.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-152037\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>2020 is a year when for almost six months, the Dominican economy practically was at a standstill. Nevertheless, Customs Agency (DGA) reports that collections were RD$127.49 billion, only 11.59% less than the R$144.22 billion in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Customs Agency said that the upturn came with the start of the new government in August. Then collections went from RD$467.1 million in August 2020 to RD$733.04 million by December 2020. &#8220;This shows the effort underway for more efficient management to benefit foreign trade,&#8221; explains DGA in a press release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;From 17 August 17 to 31 December 2020, the DGA collected RD$58.34 billion, which represents 46% of the year&#8217;s income in only 137 days. That is, almost half of the year&#8217;s income,&#8221; said its director, Eduardo Sanz Lovat\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Collections in December were RD$14.6 billion, a record for the DGA. Collections in December were RD$2.48 billion more than in December 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The December record came after November collections also were a new country record with RD$13.91 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>President Luis Abinader announced last week that Dubai&#8217;s government will be assisting the Dominican government in the modernization of Customs operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/acento.com.do\/el-financiero\/las-recaudaciones-de-aduanas-cayeron-un-1159-en-2020-con-respecto-a-2019-8900691.html\">Acento <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/acento.com.do\/actualidad\/camara-de-cuentas-no-audito-a-nadie-ni-a-nada-expresa-abinader-8900331.html\">Acento <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 January 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2020 is a year when for almost six months, the Dominican economy practically was at a standstill. Nevertheless, Customs Agency (DGA) reports that collections were RD$127.49 billion, only 11.59% less than the R$144.22 billion in 2019. The Customs Agency said that the upturn came with the start of the new government in August. Then collections &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/01\/11\/customs-agency-says-collections-are-on-a-roll\/\" 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":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152035"}],"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=152035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152038,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152035\/revisions\/152038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}