Haiti Reaffirmed as Second Largest Dominican Trading Partner



Santo Domingo, Feb 4 (Prensa Latina) Haiti was consolidated in 2012 as the second largest trading partner of the Dominican Republic after importing 975 30 000 dollars in the first 11 months of last year, according to official figures released today. That amount exceeded in $ 32 800 000 dollars the number of Dominican exports to the neighboring country during the same period of 2011. The main items sold, said the Center for Export and Investment of the Dominican Republic (CEI-RD), were cotton fabrics, parts for shirts, gray cement, wheat flour and chicken bouillon. Fertilizers, steel wire rod, soybean oil, plastic ingots, steel rods, plastic bags, biscuits, cartons, rice, sugar cane rum and detergents stands also among the exports. Although the Haitian government maintains the ban imposed in 2008 to Dominican poultry products, egg imports also increased, according to data from the CEI-RD. Officially, Dominican sent in 2011 6 390 000 units of the product to Haiti and in 2012 it amounted 12 40 000. Dominican President Danilo Medina, exemplified in his first speech after taking office on 16 August that the border between the two countries are mobilizing more goods than in a year of exports to Central America. Sc/ale/dsa
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