{"id":163327,"date":"2021-08-23T08:41:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T12:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=163327"},"modified":"2021-08-23T11:00:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T15:00:05","slug":"dr-imports-75-of-its-fuel-from-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/08\/23\/dr-imports-75-of-its-fuel-from-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"DR imports 75% of its fuel from the US"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Importacion-de-combustible-Diario-Libre-e1629730770929.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-163376\" width=\"600\" height=\"385\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In Venezuela\u2019s heyday, the Dominican Republic sourced most of its petroleum needs from that country. Today, the Customs Agency reports that upwards of 75% of fuel purchased comes from the United States. For the first semester of 2021, the government paid US$1.47 billion to import fuel. Of this total, US$1.11 billion were paid to US suppliers or 75.7% of the total fuel imports, Diario Libre reports. This is up from a year ago, when imports were 63% from the United States. In second place is The Netherlands. The DR paid US$113.7 million for the Dutch imports that represent 7.72% of total purchases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the past, Trinidad &amp; Tobago had been an important supplier, with a market share that hovered over 10%. As reported, Covid-19 resulted in a lull in production in T&amp;T.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Customs data indicates that natural gas imports are up with more natural gas plants, storage facilities and a major pipeline. Imports of natural gas cost US$226.76 million for the first six months of the year, up from US$121.29 million last year for the same period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/economia\/un-75-del-combustible-importado-llego-desde-ee-uu-DJ28218139\">Diario Libre<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>23 August 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Venezuela\u2019s heyday, the Dominican Republic sourced most of its petroleum needs from that country. Today, the Customs Agency reports that upwards of 75% of fuel purchased comes from the United States. For the first semester of 2021, the government paid US$1.47 billion to import fuel. Of this total, US$1.11 billion were paid to US &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/08\/23\/dr-imports-75-of-its-fuel-from-the-us\/\" 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\/163327"}],"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=163327"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163378,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163327\/revisions\/163378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}