{"id":39567,"date":"2001-03-12T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2001-03-12T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/caricom-fta-signed\/"},"modified":"2001-03-12T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2001-03-12T01:43:56","slug":"caricom-fta-signed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/03\/12\/caricom-fta-signed\/","title":{"rendered":"Caricom FTA signed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Hipolito Mejia signed into law the Free Trade Agreement between the DR and Caricom. Trade between the DR and the English-speaking Caribbean is primarily between Trinidad &amp; Tobago and Jamaica. The DR imports natural gas, propane and metal products from Trinidad. It exports industrial inputs for the chemical and plastics industries. Overall trade is US$50 million, of which the DR imports US$38 million and exports US$12 million.  News reports say that a mission of the government and businessmen travels today to Trinidad &amp; Tobago, site of Caricom, to meet with Prime Minister Basdeo Panday and executives of Caricom to begin the implementation of the treaty.  Pending in the Senate is a Free Trade Agreement between the DR and Central America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Hipolito Mejia signed into law the Free Trade Agreement between the DR and Caricom. Trade between the DR and the English-speaking Caribbean is primarily between Trinidad &amp; Tobago and Jamaica. The DR imports natural gas, propane and metal products from Trinidad. It exports industrial inputs for the chemical and plastics industries. Overall trade is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/03\/12\/caricom-fta-signed\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39567"}],"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=39567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39567\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}