{"id":159961,"date":"2021-06-16T07:59:06","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T11:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=159961"},"modified":"2021-06-16T09:31:26","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T13:31:26","slug":"adoexpo-dr-is-on-an-export-breaking-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/06\/16\/adoexpo-dr-is-on-an-export-breaking-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"AdoExpo: DR is on an export breaking trend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"546\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Puerto-Caucedo-barco-mayor-capacidad-Diario-Libre.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-155333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Puerto-Caucedo-barco-mayor-capacidad-Diario-Libre.jpg 546w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Puerto-Caucedo-barco-mayor-capacidad-Diario-Libre-300x192.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Dominican Association of Exporters (AdoExpo) president, Elizabeth Mena, reports a record of exports for the first four months of 2021. She says exports were US$3,752,219,096, up 23.1%. Exports in March 2021 were US$1,115,276,658, making it the highest export total ever. Mining and free zone exports made up most of the difference.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking on the occasion of the National Exporters Day and the 47th anniversary of the Dominican Exports Association, Mena said that the export total demonstrates the sector&#8217;s resilience. She says the country is firmly on its way to becoming the logistics hub of the Caribbean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mena explained that from 2010 to 2020, Dominican exports increased from US$6.81 billion to US$9.86 billion, a robust growth of 44.67%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She attributed much of the success to the diversification in the national export portfolio. Mena said that two decades ago, the main export item was apparel. Today it is gold.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/destacado\/adoexpo-marzo-fue-el-mes-con-mayor-volumen-exportado-de-la-historia-del-pais-con-usd-1115276658\/\">El Caribe <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 June 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican Association of Exporters (AdoExpo) president, Elizabeth Mena, reports a record of exports for the first four months of 2021. She says exports were US$3,752,219,096, up 23.1%. Exports in March 2021 were US$1,115,276,658, making it the highest export total ever. Mining and free zone exports made up most of the difference. Speaking on the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/06\/16\/adoexpo-dr-is-on-an-export-breaking-trend\/\" 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\/159961"}],"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=159961"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159998,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159961\/revisions\/159998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}