{"id":234948,"date":"2025-04-29T08:45:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T12:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=234948"},"modified":"2025-04-29T09:11:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T13:11:29","slug":"foreign-minister-roberto-alvarez-expects-dr-to-advance-in-tariff-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/04\/29\/foreign-minister-roberto-alvarez-expects-dr-to-advance-in-tariff-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Minister Roberto Alvarez expects DR to advance in tariff talks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Roberto-Alvarez-El-Nuevo-Diario-1024x640.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-234963\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Roberto-Alvarez-El-Nuevo-Diario-1024x640.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Roberto-Alvarez-El-Nuevo-Diario-300x188.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Roberto-Alvarez-El-Nuevo-Diario-768x480.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Roberto-Alvarez-El-Nuevo-Diario-1536x960.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Roberto-Alvarez-El-Nuevo-Diario.png 2032w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Foreign Minister Roberto Alvarez said that the Dominican Republic is in a good position to negotiate the 10% tariff the United States has levied on Dominican exports. He made the remarks when asked to tell about the results of the first meeting in Washington, D.C. he attended last week at the US Trade Representative Office together with Industry &amp; Commerce Minister Victor (Ito) Bison\u00f3 and Minister of Hacienda Jose Manuel (Jochi) Vicente. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The high-ranking Dominican mission met with the leading authorities of the USTR to discuss the new tariffs. Alvarez said that given the considerable US trade surplus with the Dominican Republic, the country hopes to negotiate for the removal of the tariff that mainly impacts free zone exports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/elnuevodiario.com.do\/rd-en-buena-posicion-para-lograr-buena-negociacion-de-aranceles-segun-el-representante-comercial-de-eeuu\/\">El Nuevo Diario <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KQU435XTyLk\">La Semanal 28 April 2025<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/04\/23\/dr-ministers-meet-with-top-brass-of-ustr-on-tariffs-us-set-its-requests-in-march-2025-ustr-report\/\">DR1 News <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>29 April 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign Minister Roberto Alvarez said that the Dominican Republic is in a good position to negotiate the 10% tariff the United States has levied on Dominican exports. He made the remarks when asked to tell about the results of the first meeting in Washington, D.C. he attended last week at the US Trade Representative Office &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/04\/29\/foreign-minister-roberto-alvarez-expects-dr-to-advance-in-tariff-talks\/\" 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":[337,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234948"}],"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=234948"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234995,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234948\/revisions\/234995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}