NewsWhore
08-24-2011, 05:40 PM
The Dominican Republic is a net exporter of ice to Haiti, and the item figures highly in the list of exports to the neighboring country. According to Listin Diario, the growing number of non-traditional export items includes cassava bread, dried coconut, fresh mangoes, organic mangoes, and "bio-dynamics" to countries like the United States, Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom, Puerto Rico, the Netherlands and others, including Haiti, which is where ice is sold.
Statistics from the Center for Exports and Investments (CEI-RD) covering the period between 2000 and 2010 reveal that a total of US$7.47 million was sold to the United States, Puerto Rico, Spain and Trinidad and Tobago, in cassava bread alone.
Exports of dried coconut to the United States, Canada, Haiti, Mexico and Italy totaled over US$8.4 million. Organic dried coconut and "bio-dynamic" coconut also made up part of these exports.
Bio-dynamic products need to have a seal which establishes the use of natural fertilizers, according to the date of planting and the farm calendar.
The country exported mangoes worth more than US$24.0 million.
And ice? Yes, the CEI-RD says that the Dominican Republic sold US$1.23 million worth of ice to Haiti over the ten-year period, but this does not include the more informal traffic of ice during market days.
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Statistics from the Center for Exports and Investments (CEI-RD) covering the period between 2000 and 2010 reveal that a total of US$7.47 million was sold to the United States, Puerto Rico, Spain and Trinidad and Tobago, in cassava bread alone.
Exports of dried coconut to the United States, Canada, Haiti, Mexico and Italy totaled over US$8.4 million. Organic dried coconut and "bio-dynamic" coconut also made up part of these exports.
Bio-dynamic products need to have a seal which establishes the use of natural fertilizers, according to the date of planting and the farm calendar.
The country exported mangoes worth more than US$24.0 million.
And ice? Yes, the CEI-RD says that the Dominican Republic sold US$1.23 million worth of ice to Haiti over the ten-year period, but this does not include the more informal traffic of ice during market days.
More... (http://www.dr1.com/index.html#4)