Crafts make money

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Juan Pablo Gonzalez from the Dominican Integrated Development Institute (IDDI) says that the Dominican handicraft sector sells US$310 million in goods yearly, but the irony is that 80% of those goods actually come from foreign countries. He explained that in Puerto Plata alone US$40 million worth of goods is sold each year. Gonzalez says that IDDI is currently working on increasing local production and marketing of Dominican made crafts.

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