Dominican Exportations

What are the exportation products from Dominican Republic?


We recently saw an increment in exportation of 44 % in relation to the last year..We are going to mention 20 products exported by DR

Dominican Republic exportation have really diversified in the last couple of years and has passed from some minor exportation of US$428 millions in 2004 to US$2,362 millions in 2011, ..And that means those minor products have been multiply by 500%

• 1.-Machines for blood transfusion
  US$147.66 ( in millions)
  I would NEVER though this would be the number 1 exportation of DR

• 2.-Cotton textile
  US$118.28

• 3.-Handmade Cigars
  US$102.45

• 4.-Sugar
  US$100.30

• 5.-Bonao's ferroniquel
  US$72.27

• 6.-Electrical switches
  US$68.26

• 7.-Disposable medical equipment
  US$66.83

• 8.- Gas ( yes, gas !)
  US$60.27

Besides that we got steel rod,US$60.16 millions disposable sheets,US$48.60millions and rum US$42.87millions

Other products: steel, rod, surgical stitches, cocoa beans, flour, white cement, organic bananas and machinery to measure blood pressure.

One low note is that between 2005 and 2011 the importation has double in DR , and 60% of it is oil and fuel, including coal.


One thing that was missing in that budget was Barrick Gold exportation= $0 and the Dominican government desperately need that income to execute several important projects

Another interesting note is the diversification of traditional exportation agrarian products in national economy.



Our biggest goal now is our own believe that we can export , because exportation were the Cinderella of the strong currency generators in DR so far.
Our forecast is that situation is going to change pretty soon being exportation one of the biggest engines in Dominican economy due to the increase of production, sales, opportunities and channels of distribution.



There is a project executed by ADOEXPO with the BID with the mission of helping the agrarian exportation companies overcome the obstacles to get their produce into central America and the Caribbean under the CAFTA agreement, something that we have under exploited yet, so we will see a bigger increase of agrarian produce exportation as well.

We need to identify the biggest challenge for exportation for the small and middle enterprises, and of course with the help and support of Danilo's administration.