Dominican Republic–United States relations
Dominican Republic |
United States |
---|
Dominican Republic–United States relations are
Overview
The country's standing as the largest
Under the purview of the
The U.S.
The Dominican government has been supportive of many U.S. initiatives in the
The United States supported the Leonel Fernández administration's efforts to improve Dominican competitiveness, to attract foreign private investment, to fight corruption, and to modernize the tax system. Bilateral trade is important to both countries. U.S. firms, mostly manufacturers of apparel, footwear, and light electronics, as well as U.S. energy companies, account for much of the foreign private investment in the Dominican Republic.
Exports from the United States to the Dominican Republic in 2018 totaled US$8.9 billion, up 14% from the previous year. The Dominican Republic exported $5.3 billion to the United States in 2018. The U.S. Embassy works closely with U.S. business firms and Dominican
The Embassy counsels U.S. firms through its Country Commercial Guide and informally via meetings with business persons planning to invest or already investing in the Dominican Republic. This is a challenging business environment for U.S. firms, especially for medium to smaller sized businesses.
The
Resident diplomatic missions
- Dominican Republic has an embassy in Washington, D.C., and consulates-general in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York City, San Juan and Mayagüez.[3]
- United States has an embassy in Santo Domingo.[4]
See also
- Dominican Americans
- Foreign relations of the United States
- Foreign relations of the Dominican Republic
- United States involvement in regime change in Latin America
References
This article incorporates public domain material from U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets. United States Department of State.
Further reading
- Ayala, César J. American sugar kingdom (Duke University Press, 2014).
- Braveboy-Wagner, Jacqueline, and Clifford Griffin. Historical Dictionary of United States-Caribbean Relations (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017).
- Duany, Jorge. "To send or not to send: Migrant remittances in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Mexico." ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 630.1 (2010): 205–223. online
- Fatalski, Marcin. "The United States and the Fall of the Trujillo Regime." Ad Americam. Journal of American Studies 14 (2013): 7–18.
- Finley-Brook, Mary. "CAFTA-DR: diverging trajectories and uneven development." in Handbook of International Trade Agreements (Routledge, 2018) pp. 166–180.
- Hornbeck, John F. "The Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA DR): Developments in Trade and Investment." (2012). online Archived 2021-05-14 at the Wayback Machine
- Horne, Gerald. Confronting Black Jacobins: The US, the Haitian Revolution, and the Origins of the Dominican Republic (NYU Press, 2015).
- Motel, Seth, and Eileen Patten. "Hispanics of Dominican origin in the United States, 2010." (Pew Research Hispanic Trends Project, 2012) online.
- Munro, Dana G. The United States and the Caribbean Republics, 1921–1933 (1974) online
- Paton, John R. Intellectual and political resistance to the US occupation of the Dominican Republic–1916-1924 (The University of Maine, 2013).