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Dajabón, Dominican Republic.- Customs director Rafael Camilo revealed Thursday that Dominican exports to Haiti last year topped US$462.0 million, which makes it Dominican Republic’s most important trade partner, over Puerto Rico and the United States.

He said wheat flour, soybean oil, rice, natural water, crackers, pasta, bananas and chicken parts are some of the products most sold to Haiti.

Camilo, speaking during the ribbon cutting for the new Customs and Immigration offices in Dajabón (northwest), said construction products such as cement, rebar, tin roofing and stainless steel cables are another important line pf trade between the two nations.

The facilities were built at a cost RD$37 million for Customs (25 million in infrastructure and 12 million in equipment), and the European Union provided RD$35.6 million.

“These new offices serve to expedite and make more transparent the trade on the border zones of both nations, separated by the Masacre river,” Camilo said.

The Customs chief said Dajabón is the second most important shipment port for the formal trade with our neighbors and that US$143.9 million were collected last year from exports, or 17.9 percent of the border region’s economic movement.

He added that U$227.6 million worth of products were exported to Haiti in 2009, compared with the U$462.2 million in 2010, a jump of 103.1 percent.

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9 comment(s)
Written by: hellborn25, 17 Feb 2011 6:54 PM
From: United States, words of wisdom from the nutcracker
I don think thats something you should be proud off, haiti is the poorest country in the nation , why should you feel good about futhering raping the haitian economy .
Written by: hellborn25, 17 Feb 2011 7:10 PM
From: United States, words of wisdom from the nutcracker
Haiti is a country on the brink of collapsed , coming of one of the worst earthquakes of this decade , having haiti has the country most important partner is a comical accomplishment
Written by: RoyStone, 17 Feb 2011 9:04 PM
From: Australia
Haiti is not the ¨trading partner¨, the charities supplying the Haitians are. If and when the charity runs out, so will the ¨trade¨. After the inevitable collapse of DR´s tourist industry, DR workers abroad will be almost the only source of foreign exchange.

Written by: antonio1, 18 Feb 2011 12:22 AM
From: Dominican Republic, Av Santa Rosa, La Romana
Make no bones about it, Haiti is and always will be one of our main trading partners…
Written by: pelaut, 18 Feb 2011 9:41 AM
From: United States
From Bill Clinton's control of relief funds to the DR drug bridge to ..... the Clinton "Library"?
Written by: WalterPolo, 18 Feb 2011 12:51 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Puerto Plata
The concept of partnership involves all parties contributing something.

So Haiti is nor DR's trading partner. Merely a client whose bills are paid by a third party.
Written by: Vysotsky, 18 Feb 2011 2:15 PM
From: Russia
Why do Haitians continue to support the Dominican economy by buying cheap, low grade goods from those haters?
Written by: CarlosFranco, 18 Feb 2011 3:21 PM
From: United States, Brooklyn

Vysotsky

Haitians don't support our economy, they suppress it by (1) lowering wages, (2) taking jobs from poor Dominicans, (3) and sending our people to the sharks and if they are lucky into the USA for a decent wage.
Written by: talia, 18 Feb 2011 5:41 PM
From: United States
Just because you do business with another country doesn't necessarily mean you're aiding their economy.

And Carlos who's giving the Haitian your jobs, because when would a Dominican let a Haitian "take" his job? You don't want them, don't hire them. I thought that's what you would say.
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