Foreign Professionals Working Temporarily in the Dominican Republic Must Register First, Here’s the Rule A foreign engineering firm flies a team into Santo Domingo for a six-month project. The contract is signed, the visas are sorted, and the company assumes it is compliant. Dominican consumer protection rules add one more step that cross-border service providers […]
Stopping Counterfeits at the Border: How Customs IP Enforcement Works in the Dominican Republic Once a container of counterfeit goods clears customs and its contents scatter across markets and storefronts, a brand owner’s remedies get slow and expensive. Dominican law is built around a cheaper alternative: stopping the shipment at the pier. Intellectual Property Law […]
The Dominican Republic Customs Law allows for different customs regimes which may be applied to according to the desired commercial, export and trade operation, including most that we summarize as follows: Regime of Import for Consumption Article 53 of Law No. 3489, provides that the duties and taxes to be paid over the imported goods […]
Business entities performing commercial activities in the Dominican Republic are governed by Dominican Law 479-08 of Commercial Entities and Individual Limited Liability Enterprises, enacted on December of 2008 as well as by inter party agreements, commercial practices and common law. The Law will consider that there is a commercial entity whenever two or more individuals […]
Dominican Customs Law 3489, of February 14 of 1953 and its amendments, contains the customs regime of the Dominican Republic (DR). The last amendment to Law No. 3489 was made by the Law No. 226-06, which grants legal personality and functional, budget, administrative, technical autonomy and its own patrimony to the Dominican General Customs Administration […]
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