{"id":74002,"date":"2016-05-18T15:44:26","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T15:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=74002"},"modified":"2016-05-18T15:44:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T15:44:26","slug":"drop-in-fuel-import-prices-benefits-balance-of-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2016\/05\/18\/drop-in-fuel-import-prices-benefits-balance-of-payments\/","title":{"rendered":"Drop in fuel import prices benefits balance of payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The National Statistics Office (ONE) reported yesterday, Tuesday 17 May 2016, that the petroleum and petroleum by-product imports (FOB values) for 2015 were US$2.69 billion, down US$1.36 billion or 33.6% compared to 2014 when imports reached US$4.05 billion. The decline allowed for an overall drop in imports of 2.3%, which benefited the balance of payments. If fuel imports are not taken into consideration, imports were up 7% last year. <\/p>\n<p> The DR imports fuel (as crude and final products) mainly from the United States, Mexico, Venezuela, Bahamas, and Trinidad &#038; Tobago. <\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/www.elnuevodiario.com.do\/app\/article.aspx?id=479162<\/p>\n<p> http:\/\/acento.com.do\/2016\/economia\/8349710-venezuela-ya-no-es-la-gran-fuente-petrolera-de-republica-dominicana\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Statistics Office (ONE) reported yesterday, Tuesday 17 May 2016, that the petroleum and petroleum by-product imports (FOB values) for 2015 were US$2.69 billion, down US$1.36 billion or 33.6% compared to 2014 when imports reached US$4.05 billion. The decline allowed for an overall drop in imports of 2.3%, which benefited the balance of payments. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2016\/05\/18\/drop-in-fuel-import-prices-benefits-balance-of-payments\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74002"}],"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=74002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}