The ambassador of the Dominican Republic to the USA, Sonia Guzmán was featured today in an article that appeared in Listin Diario Newspaper. A translation of the article follows:
Candida Acosta, Santo Domingo, RD
The ambassador of the Dominican Republic in Washington, Sonia Guzmán, revealed that the American company Ridge Partners will settle in Jicomé, on the Northwest Line of the country, to produce biodiesel from solid waste and export the fuel to the United Kingdom.
She indicated that the plant is located in Maryland and is only waiting to close a legal permit to start in the country and export biodiesel in two years, because the Hydrocarbons law does not allow sales in the local market.
Exports will be made from Puerto Plata. The plant will be in Jicomé and they will buy solid waste (garbage) in all neighboring communities to process the biodiesel to export it refined.
Guzmán explained that with the purchase of waste, the Maryland private company will leave US $ 0.5 cents to each community to be used for social development programs.
"That is an interesting project, which we gave heat and that is coming", which will be built by a Dominican company, said the diplomat.
Treaty Similarly, the Dominican ambassador in Washington emphasized the little benefit that has been taken from the free trade agreement with the United States and Central America (DR-Cafta) in the country, where for reasons of ignorance the legal advantage is not taken advantage of there is for the manufacture of footwear, but above all from a mechanism that this country has and that Central America does not have.
She explained that the inputs to make footwear can come cut, the leathers, the molds and with seams from the outside, "and we only assemble them and they are considered from the Dominican Republic."
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Exports
She also argued that the country is self-sufficient in the production of agricultural goods and believes that many new investments will come and that each time agricultural production will have more exportable products.
Products
In this context, Guzmán stressed that they are working with six products such as meat, pitajaya, coconut, chinola, among others, to increase exports.