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Maricell Silvestre Rodríguez Trade and Investment Policies Manager Representing Jean Alain Rodríguez Secretary of State and Executive Director Export and Investment Center of the Dominican Republic (CEI-RD) 2014 KSP Regional Workshop Latin America and the Caribbean

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Page 1: Maricell Silvestre Rodríguez Trade and Investment Policies Manager Representing Jean Alain Rodríguez Secretary of State and Executive Director Export and

Maricell Silvestre RodríguezTrade and Investment Policies

ManagerRepresenting Jean Alain Rodríguez

Secretary of State and Executive DirectorExport and Investment Center of the

Dominican Republic (CEI-RD)

2014 KSP Regional Workshop Latin America and the Carib-

bean

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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: country profile.

Population 10 Million. Territorial Extension:

48,700 km2.

Open econ-omy with more than US$27,000 MM in ex-

port/import

The country with the

most mar-itime and aerial con-nections in the Carib-

bean.

We export more than 3,780 prod-uct lines, to more than 189 coun-

tries.

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Dominican Republic

Main exporter of organic bananas and cocoa to the UE.

Main exporter of cigars to the USA.

Between the 9 main exporters of mangoes to the UK.

Main exporter of sugar-cane rum to Spain and 3rd worldwide.

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Export and Investment Center of the Dominican Republic  (CEI-RD).

▶CEI-RD is the official agency responsible for the promotion of exports and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI).

- To promote the Dominican Republic in the international markets for goods and services;

-To offer technical and policy assistance to improve new markets, identify new products with potential for exportation and enhance competitiveness;

-To support export promotion and expansion for sustained economic development in the Dominican Re-public;

- To support capacity-building efforts of Dominican policy-makers and entrepreneurs to attract interna-tional investment.

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Strategic Public Policies: export promotion.

Improve access to foreign markets and

facilitate international trade; 

Develop value-added produc-tion capacities;

Support collaborations to gen-erate research and infrastruc-

ture capacity;

Sustainable financing:• Support the exports of goods and ser-vices.

• Generate quality employment.

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Export Promotion Strategy: Dominican Republic Experience.

•KSP for the Dominican Republic began in June 2006.

•The Korean Ministry of Strategy and Finance (MOSF) selected the Dominican Republic as the first beneficiary country for the KSP in Latin Amer-ica.

KSP

•Provision of assistance through capacity building and competitiveness enhancement of working-level officials involved in the mission;

•Support capacity-building efforts of Dominican poli-cymakers and entrepreneurs to facilitate the pro-motion of export’s and sustained economic devel-opment in the Dominican Republic.

Objec-tives

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Project Background KSP I-VI.

KSP I (2008): •A comprehensive policy advisory service was carried out for the export development policy of the Dominican Republic.

KSP II (2009): •Policy advisory services concentrated on the construction of structural infrastructure in order to improve SOC for export promotion and modernization of the power system, among others.

KSP III (2010): •Efforts were concentrated on the export financing sector in order to support the establishment of an Export Credit Agency (ECA) in the Dominican Republic.

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Project Background KSP I-VI.

KSP IV (2011):• Aimed at export credit capacity building and ex-

port industry promotion for the Dominican Repub-lic.

KSP V (2012): • Provided continued support for export credit ca-

pacity building as well as a training courses.

KSP VI (2013):

• Policy advisory services concentrated on:• - Follow-up support in launching DEXIM for Export

Credit Capacity Building of the Dominican Republic; • - Improvement of Food Quality System by establish-

ment of DFRI (Dominican Food Research Institute) in Dominican Republic;

• - Establishment of the CIBAO Trade Center in the Dominican Republic.

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Meetings.

Knowledge Sharing Program for Develop-

ment Partnership Coun-tries: Export Credit Ca-pacity Building and Ex-port Industry Promo-tion. January, 2013.

Seoul, Korea.

Interim Reporting and Policy Practitioners

Workshop of the Knowledge Sharing

Program (KSP) with the Dominican Republic.

February, 2014. Seoul, Korea.

Final Reporting Workshop of the

Knowledge Sharing Program (KSP). April,

2014. Santo Domingo, Dominican

Republic.

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Project Execution Results.

Knowledge Ex-change

Coopera-tionRecommenda-

tions

Imple-mentation

support

Research

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The Export Bank of the Dominican Republic (BANDEX).

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BANDEX. Next Steps.

Completion of the transformation process of the BNVP.

Initial and ongoing training for the human resources that will be involved in the project, both for the CEI-RD and BNVP.

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Maricell Silvestre RodríguezTrade and Investment Policies ManagerRepresenting Jean Alain Rodríguez Secretary of State and Executive DirectorExport and Investment Center of the Dominican Republic (CEI-RD)