Santo Domingo.- The Agriculture Ministry and the Customs Agency established a One-stop Foreign Trade Window (VUCE-RD), to expedite the procedures to export and import agro products
In a statement Agriculture minister Angel Estévez said the system will digitize his entity’s internal processes and simplify the procedures for users.
He called the one-top window “a transcendental pilot plan’ for the Dominican Republic’s business abroad and a example of efficiency, transparency and technological advancement as envisioned in president Danilo Medina’s Digital Republic project.
Estevez said the system will save the more than 4,000 export-import companies registered in Agriculture over RD$1.0 billion per year.
Days away
For his part Customs director, Enrique Ramírez affirmed that the agribusiness companies will have access to the efficient system “in the coming days.”