{"id":237446,"date":"2025-06-16T08:02:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T12:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=237446"},"modified":"2025-06-16T08:57:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T12:57:28","slug":"industrial-free-zones-are-a-major-part-of-dominican-exports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/06\/16\/industrial-free-zones-are-a-major-part-of-dominican-exports\/","title":{"rendered":"Industrial free zones are a major part of Dominican exports"},"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\/06\/Exportaciones-Zonas-Francas-Diario-Libre-1024x572.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-237505\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Exportaciones-Zonas-Francas-Diario-Libre-1024x572.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Exportaciones-Zonas-Francas-Diario-Libre-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Exportaciones-Zonas-Francas-Diario-Libre-768x429.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Exportaciones-Zonas-Francas-Diario-Libre-1536x858.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Exportaciones-Zonas-Francas-Diario-Libre.png 1776w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic stats, industrial free zone exports were 60.7% of all exports, just slightly below the totals for 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These numbers are a reflection of the competitiveness of this model of manufacturing versus the more traditional models.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is evidenced by the fact that local manufacturing produced only 39.3% of exports, something that experts see as demonstrating the need for more support to manufacturing outside of the duty-free parks.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These observations are followed by a call for tax reforms that will provide incentives for more modern production processes in the local scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>El Caribe reports that 61% of the inputs used in the local free zone manufacturing plants comes from the United States, the Dominican Republic\u2019s main trading partner. 10% comes from China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/economia\/finanzas\/2025\/06\/11\/las-zonas-francas-continuan-\">Diario Libre <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.elcaribe.com.do\/panorama\/dinero\/de-insumos-que-usan-zonas-francas-61-es-de-ee-uu\/\">El Caribe <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>16 June 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the Central Bank of the Dominican Republic stats, industrial free zone exports were 60.7% of all exports, just slightly below the totals for 2023. These numbers are a reflection of the competitiveness of this model of manufacturing versus the more traditional models. This is evidenced by the fact that local manufacturing produced only &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/06\/16\/industrial-free-zones-are-a-major-part-of-dominican-exports\/\" 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\/237446"}],"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=237446"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237506,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237446\/revisions\/237506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}