The system for the promotion of Dominican free zones establishes at least three categories of export free zones which offer opportunities for investors and exporters at the different levels of industrial processing, taking into account their location, number, qualification of job posts and the origin of the raw materials and of the products to be […]
U.S. Preclearance at Punta Cana Airport: What the 2016 Agreement Promised Travelers and Investors On December 2, 2016, the Dominican Republic signed on to an exclusive club. Under a preclearance agreement with U.S. customs authorities, travelers departing Punta Cana International Airport for the United States would complete U.S. customs and immigration checks before boarding, landing […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Dominican Republic’s Bid to Become the Caribbean’s Air Hub, and What It Means for Investors Ten million tourists a year. That was the target on the table when the Dominican Republic’s tourism industry and commercial aviation sector agreed to push a shared goal: turning the country into the Caribbean’s principal air hub. The initiative, […]
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