Proindustria Qualification: The Tax Incentives Dominican Manufacturers Leave on the Table Hundreds of manufacturers operating in the Dominican Republic have qualified under Law 392-07 on Industrial Development and Competitiveness since 2007, yet many industrial companies, particularly foreign-owned ones, still pay taxes the law would let them avoid, simply because they never sought qualification. The Industrial […]
Arthur & Castillo at the International Jurists AGM: What a Global Legal Network Means for Clients in the Dominican Republic When a Dominican transaction touches three jurisdictionsm, a seller in Santo Domingo, financing from Madrid, a buyer in Toronto, no single law firm can cover it alone. That is the practical problem international legal networks […]
Registering Imported Food, Drugs and Cosmetics in the Dominican Republic: The DIGEMAPS Rules No medicine, packaged food, cosmetic or hygiene product legally reaches a Dominican shelf, or a Dominican hospital, without passing through one office. Decree 82-15, issued April 6, 2015, created that office: the General Directorate of Pharmaceutical, Foods and Sanitary Health Products, DIGEMAPS, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Foreign Investment in the Dominican Republic: What Law 16-95 Guarantees, and Why Registration Still Matters Foreign direct investment in the Dominican Republic crossed the five-billion-dollar mark in 2025, a record, driven largely by tourism and real estate. Behind that flow of capital sits a statute that has barely changed since 1995: Foreign Investment Law 16-95. […]
Filing a Customs Declaration in the Dominican Republic: Five Business Days, One Filing, Real Surcharges An importer whose container is legally received at a Dominican port has five business days to file the customs declaration. Miss the deadline and the meter starts: a 5% surcharge for the first week of delay, plus 3% for each […]
Selling From a Dominican Free Zone Into the Local Market: The 3.5% Tax and the Monthly RZF-01 Filing The tax exemption of a Dominican free zone ends at its fence. A company operating under Free Zones Law 8-90 pays essentially nothing on what it exports, and a very specific set of taxes the moment it […]
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