Foreign professional service providers must register and present their technical or professional qualifications as a guarantee, to be able to operate temporarily in the Dominican Republic. The creation of such register was decided by the Dominican Consumer Protection Institute (“Pro Consumidor”) Resolution 03-2011 of July 21st of 2011, pursuant to article 53 of the Dominican […]
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 […]
The General Customs Administration has established the system for self- determination of the customs tax obligation. Through this system, the taxpayer of the customs tax obligation (importer, consignee, customs agent or broker) has the power to set, by itself, the quantity of the customs tax obligation. The above means that the taxpayer acknowledges the imported […]
Intellectual Property in Dominican Republic: Patents, Trademarks, Trade Names & Copyright, Explained Before committing capital to a new market, sophisticated companies ask a blunt question: if we bring our technology and our brand here, can we keep them? In the Dominican Republic the answer runs through two statutes, two agencies and a set of international […]
Documentary Sales: How Exporters and Importers in the Dominican Republic Get Paid Without Getting Burned A container leaves the Port of Caucedo bound for a buyer the seller has never met. The goods are worth six figures. The seller wants payment before losing control of the cargo; the buyer refuses to pay for merchandise that […]
Under Dominican Republic Law 479-08 of Commercial Entities and Individual Limited Liability Enterprises provides, in relation to company mergers, that one or more business entities may by way of merger transfer their assets to an existing entity or to a newly incorporated entity. In relation to Dominican Republic company spin offs, Dominican Law No. 479-08 […]
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