Free Trade Blog » Dominican Republic http://freetrade.opencontentlaw.org FTAs and IT businesses Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:11:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 DR-CAFTA entices investment in the DR’s biofuel industry http://freetrade.opencontentlaw.org/2007/06/29/dr-cafta-entices-investment-in-the-dr%e2%80%99s-biofuel-industry/ http://freetrade.opencontentlaw.org/2007/06/29/dr-cafta-entices-investment-in-the-dr%e2%80%99s-biofuel-industry/#comments Fri, 29 Jun 2007 10:24:36 +0000 chlobermuk http://freetrade.opencontentlaw.org/2007/06/29/dr-cafta-entices-investment-in-the-dr%e2%80%99s-biofuel-industry/ The Dominican Today reports that during his recent trip to Brazil, President Leonel Fernández expressed the DR’s interest in forming a trade alliance between the DR and Brazil, taking advantage of the DR-CAFTA1.  It is reported that the DR is keen to attract investment in order to develop its ethanol industry, and that President Fernández has indicated that the DR-CAFTA makes the DR an ideal platform for export to the US market2. While in Brazil, President Fernández managed to conclude agreements with investors for, among other things, biofuel production3.

 

1 “Brazil-Dominican pact would bank on US-Central America Free Trade” (June 20, 2007), Dominican Today: http://www.dominicantoday.com/app/article.aspx?id=24367 

2 “Official visit seeks Dominican-Brazilian trade, aviation and fuel pacts” (June 15, 2007), Dominican Today: http://www.dominicantoday.com/app/article.aspx?id=24317 

3 “President back from a successful Brazil trip” (June 24, 2007), Dominican Today: http://www.dominicantoday.com/app/article.aspx?id=24412

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It appears that the US is not convinced that the Dominican Republic has fully complied with DR-CAFTA requirements. [bilaterals.org].

New book out by several contributors to the International Economic Law and Policy Blog — Research Handbook in International Economic Law. If anyone gets a chance to review it, please post in the comments. I would very much like to give it a look-through in relation to the project. [Edgar Elgar].

More blogosphere news

From Global Voices comes a discussion on DR-CAFTA events in Costa Rica. Of particular relevance to this project is the part discussing moves by companies to provide broadband services once the markets are fully open. One private company is rolling out WiMax to meet the need. [Global Voices].

Daniel Ikenson over at Cato comments on imports and free trade in relation to the US President’s Trade Promotion Authority, which is due to expire this summer. [Cato].

The Trade Diversion blog doesn’t think much of the import arguments used by Ikenson in relation to DR-CAFTA. [Trade Diversion].

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