{"id":69835,"date":"2015-12-02T20:31:37","date_gmt":"2015-12-02T20:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=69835"},"modified":"2015-12-04T20:42:28","modified_gmt":"2015-12-04T20:42:28","slug":"free-zone-exports-up-5-in-jan-sept-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2015\/12\/02\/free-zone-exports-up-5-in-jan-sept-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Free zone exports up 5% in Jan-Sept 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Free zone manufacturing companies are reporting a 5% increase from January to September of this year compared to 2014. Exports for the period totaled US$4.11 billion, compared to US$3.92 billion in 2014. <\/p>\n<p> National Council of Free Zones executive director Luisa Fernandez Duran says that the growth was due to increases in exports of cacao beans (20.9%), tobacco (19.7%), medical devices (6.9%), footwear (5.9%) and clothing (3.3%).<\/p>\n<p> She highlighted that Dominican free zone exports are up at a time when exports are down 2% globally. She said the reason for the increase was the diverse nature of Dominican manufacturing. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"1xpuUAfqDw\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/las-exportaciones-zf-crecen-un-5-de-enero-a-septiembre\/\">Las exportaciones ZF crecen un 5% de enero a septiembre<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe title=\"&#8220;Las exportaciones ZF crecen un 5% de enero a septiembre&#8221; &#8212; Hoy Digital\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" src=\"https:\/\/hoy.com.do\/las-exportaciones-zf-crecen-un-5-de-enero-a-septiembre\/embed\/#?secret=1xpuUAfqDw\" data-secret=\"1xpuUAfqDw\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Free zone manufacturing companies are reporting a 5% increase from January to September of this year compared to 2014. Exports for the period totaled US$4.11 billion, compared to US$3.92 billion in 2014. National Council of Free Zones executive director Luisa Fernandez Duran says that the growth was due to increases in exports of cacao beans &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2015\/12\/02\/free-zone-exports-up-5-in-jan-sept-2015\/\" 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":[234,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69835"}],"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=69835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69835\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}