Dominican Free Zones: The Legal Engine Behind an Export Boom Textiles, footwear, cigars, medical devices: the products leaving Dominican free zones read like a map of the country’s industrial strengths, and the United States buys more of them than any other market. When free zone exports grew 6.2% in a single quarter, the strongest pace […]
Dominican Real Estate Property Sale Tax Ruling 08-2014 of December 22, 2014, provides for the Release of Real Estate Property from the seller’s information registered at the Dominican Tax Administration’s registration system. Individuals and legal entities that sale a real estate property before or after the publication of said Tax Ruling must file a release […]
On December 8 of 2014, the Judiciary Council (CPJ) of the Dominican Republic issued Resolution 13-2014, thereby appointing 115 new judicial interpreters in different languages, who may provide legal translation of documents as well as language interpretation services in different courts of the country, within the corresponding powers granted in their role as auxiliaries of […]
Cross-Border Legal Trends: Arthur & Castillo at the International Jurists Meeting The legal problems arriving at a Dominican firm’s door increasingly originate elsewhere: a data dispute governed by foreign law, an e-commerce venture selling into a dozen markets, an investor structuring through three jurisdictions. Keeping pace requires more than reading, it requires comparing notes with […]
Data Protection in the Dominican Republic: What Law 172-13 Covers and the Reform Waiting in Congress Every business that holds customer data in the Dominican Republic operates under a statute written in 2013, largely with credit bureaus in mind. That gap between what companies actually do with data and what the law was built to […]
Dominican Regulation of Sale Transfers and Endorsements of New and Used Motor Vehicles, 06-2013 was issued on December 12, 2013 and provides for a procedure to formalize the transfers of vehicles in favor of concessionaires and dealers. Said procedure includes the duty, by the owner of the vehicle, to notify the transfer or exchange of […]
Free Zone Payroll in the Dominican Republic: How the Sector’s Minimum Wage Is Set, and Why It Changes For a manufacturer choosing between Caribbean production sites, one number drives the spreadsheet: the legal minimum wage. In the Dominican Republic’s industrial free zones, that number is not fixed by statute once and forever, it is negotiated […]
Dominican Real Estate Law Developments, include a Draft Bill amending Tourism Development Promotion Law 158-01 (“Confotur Law”). On July 22th of 2013, the Chamber of Deputies of the Dominican Republic approved the Draft Bill amending Confotur Law No. 158-01 of Incentives for Tourism Development of the Dominican Republic to include non- exempt urban and oceanfront […]
Mining in the Dominican Republic: Who Regulates the Sector and What Investors Must Know First The Dominican Republic hosts one of the largest gold mines in the Americas, yet an investor approaching the sector quickly discovers that the first challenge is not geological, it is institutional: knowing which authority actually decides. Since Law 100-13, that […]
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