{"id":41073,"date":"2001-09-10T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2001-09-10T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/putting-the-pants-on-the-americas\/"},"modified":"2001-09-10T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2001-09-10T01:43:56","slug":"putting-the-pants-on-the-americas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/09\/10\/putting-the-pants-on-the-americas\/","title":{"rendered":"Putting the pants on the Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>El Caribe reports that the Dominican Republic&#146;s leading export is cotton pants. The country exported over US$1 billion in pants, an increase of 13.6% this year.  DR exports make up 4.1% of all apparel exports to the US. The DR is the fourth largest exporter to the US only surpassed by Mexico (15.1%), China (6.8%), Hong Kong (6.5%), Honduras (4.4%). 36% of the 185,000 jobs in the free zones or 66,000 are in the manufacture of pants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El Caribe reports that the Dominican Republic&#146;s leading export is cotton pants. The country exported over US$1 billion in pants, an increase of 13.6% this year. DR exports make up 4.1% of all apparel exports to the US. The DR is the fourth largest exporter to the US only surpassed by Mexico (15.1%), China (6.8%), &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/09\/10\/putting-the-pants-on-the-americas\/\" 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\/41073"}],"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=41073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}