BORDER MARKETS, NEARLY 900 MILLION IN SALES FOR THE DOMINICANS
(Haiti Libre) -
According to a report published by the Center for Export and Investment of the Dominican Republic (CEI-RD), the Dominicans have sold to Haiti, from January 2004 to December 2010, through the border trade where Dominicans and Haitians are doing business weekly [Jimaní, Dajabón, Elías Piña et Pedernales], goods worth a total of 872.7 million U.S. dollars.
Most transactions were made at the border of Jimaní where, during this period (7 years), the sales of Dominican products sold to Haitians were estimated at 541.6 million dollars, mainly: cotton fabrics, clothing made of synthetic fibers, steel rods for construction, various edibles, gray cement, antidiarrheal products, wheat flour, fuel, and tents, among others...
At the border market of Dajabón have been sold for a value of 143.8 million: cotton, wheat flour, gray cement, chicken and offal, tank tops and other textiles, broken rice, bananas, pasta, detergent powder, and others.
At the market of Elias Piña reported $105.7 million in the sale of wheat flour, plastic bags, zinc plates, steel rods, broken rice, cement, automotive paint, cookies, soy oil and other various products.
The market of Pedernales where transactions are more modest, sold mainly, wheat flour, desiccated coconut, black beans, used clothing, salami, raw sugar cane, bananas, detergent powder, household utensils, and other plastics for a total of $14.3 million.
The report states that sales on the border markets, for an amount of $67.3 million, were made in other sectors, without specifying their nature. During the first 9 months [January 2010 to September 2011], the CEI-RD has identified a total of 1,334 product lines: industrial, agricultural and crafts exported to Haiti.
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