{"id":38076,"date":"2013-11-29T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/more-politics-than-economics\/"},"modified":"2013-11-29T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T01:43:56","slug":"more-politics-than-economics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2013\/11\/29\/more-politics-than-economics\/","title":{"rendered":"More politics than economics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> According to statistics published by the Center for Exports and Investments of the Dominican Republic (CEI-RD), bilateral trade between DR and Caricom was US$766 million in 2012, and has averaged US$687.14 million over the past five years (2008-2012). <\/p>\n<p> The Dominican Republic has purchased more than it has sold to Caricom. The bulk of trade is made up of imports by the Dominican Republic from Trinidad &#038; Tobago. This despite the signing of the Caricom free trade agreement that has been in place for 15 years. <\/p>\n<p> Dominican exports to Caricom totaled US$24 million, as reported in Listin Diario.  <\/p>\n<p> www.listindiario.com\/economia-and-negocios\/2013\/11\/28\/301419\/Caricom-es-un-tema-politico<\/p>\n<p> www.diariolibre.com\/economia\/2013\/11\/29\/i413078_repablica-dominicana-compra-us431-millones-mas-que-vende-paases-caricom.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to statistics published by the Center for Exports and Investments of the Dominican Republic (CEI-RD), bilateral trade between DR and Caricom was US$766 million in 2012, and has averaged US$687.14 million over the past five years (2008-2012). The Dominican Republic has purchased more than it has sold to Caricom. The bulk of trade is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2013\/11\/29\/more-politics-than-economics\/\" 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":[232,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38076"}],"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=38076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}