AMCHAMDR touts Dominican business climate to Florida investors

Santo Domingo.- Companies specialized in technology,energy, goods production free zone and other areas recently came from Floridaas part of a trade mission coordinated by the American Chamber of Commerce(AMCHAMDR) in collaboration with Florida Foreign Trade Association, representedby its president Ralph Puga, aimed at ??exploring business opportunities inmeetings with Dominican counterparts.

Among the participating companies from Florida figure OneCoast, Electric Supply, Factronics USA, Latam Xport, West Inc and AATI, whose representativesalso took part in talks about the Dominican Republic.

The speakers included David McNeill, Senior CommercialOfficer of the US Commercial Service in Santo Domingo; Gerson Perez, AssistantManager of New Business Investment of the Dominican Republic Export and InvestmentCenter CEI-RD; and Erick Alma, CEO of Haina International Terminal.

In his welcome speech AMCHAMDR Executive vice president WilliamMalamud described Dominican Republic’s business climate as favorable.

“With these initiatives, AMCHAMDR seeks to furtherencourage foreign investment in the country by organizing trade missions.During the mission 80 business meetings were organized,” AMCHAMDR said in anemailed statement.