Personal Data Protection in the Dominican Republic

Your Personal Data in the Dominican Republic: What Law 172-13 Protects and What It Lacks A person requests their credit history and discovers outdated, or outright wrong, information in a Dominican credit bureau. The question that follows, what can I do about it?, has had a concrete legal answer since 2013: Law 172-13 on the […]

Dominican Customs Administrative Appeals

Customs Reviewed Your Import Declaration in the DR Years Later: How the Appeal Works An importing company declares, pays its duties, and considers the matter closed. Months, or even two years, later, it receives a notice: the General Directorate of Customs (Dirección General de Aduanas, DGA) reviewed the file and found a discrepancy. The initial […]

Collection of Sums of Money in Dominican Republic

What to Do When a Client in the Dominican Republic Stops Paying: The Action for Collection of a Sum of Money A supplier invoices two million pesos to a distributor in Santo Domingo. Sixty days pass. Then ninety. The phone stops ringing on the other end. It is at that moment, not before, that most […]