{"id":47062,"date":"1998-02-03T01:43:56","date_gmt":"1998-02-03T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/boom-in-textile-exports\/"},"modified":"1998-02-03T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"1998-02-03T01:43:56","slug":"boom-in-textile-exports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1998\/02\/03\/boom-in-textile-exports\/","title":{"rendered":"Boom in textile exports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the National Free Zones Council, the Dominican Republic is the seventh largest exporter of textiles to the United States. In 1997, the country exported more than US$2,000 million in textiles.  The 27% growth in textile exports from the Dominican Republic was only surpassed worldwide by the 28.33% growth of China and Mexico&#8217;s 40.89%. Textile exports were up 11.75% in Korea; 20.76% in Canada 20.76%; 5.05% in Taiwan; and 0.58% in Hong Kong. Textile exports generated foreign exchange for US$700 million, up 21%. The National Free Zones Council says that the free zone textile industries accounted for 145,000 jobs in 1997. Some 77 new apparel companies were installed in 1997.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the National Free Zones Council, the Dominican Republic is the seventh largest exporter of textiles to the United States. In 1997, the country exported more than US$2,000 million in textiles. The 27% growth in textile exports from the Dominican Republic was only surpassed worldwide by the 28.33% growth of China and Mexico&#8217;s 40.89%. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1998\/02\/03\/boom-in-textile-exports\/\" 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":[11,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47062"}],"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=47062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}