ProDominicana — Coordinating the Dominican Republic's Export and Investment Drive

The Dominican Republic created the Centro de Exportación e Inversión de la República Dominicana (CEI-RD) on 17 June 2003 under Law 98-03, merging the export promoter CEDOPEX with the investment office OPI-RD. In August 2017, Decree 275-17 rebranded and re-mandated the institution as ProDominicana, tasking it with executing the National Export and Investment Promotion Strategy, including targeted programmes such as SheTrades and 'Mujer Exporta+' for women-led exporting businesses.

According to ProDominicana and independent legal-sector reporting (DMK Abogados), Dominican goods exports grew 23.5% between 2020 and 2023, then reached successive records: $12.93 billion in 2024 (+8.3%) and $15.9 billion in 2025 (+14%), with growth led by raw gold, tobacco and medical/orthopaedic device exports. The agency also reported foreign direct investment inflows up roughly 97% over the five years to 2025, which it described as the country's fourth consecutive annual FDI record ($5.03 billion).

These are agency- and government-reported aggregate trade and investment totals rather than causal, firm-level evaluations of ProDominicana's specific interventions; export growth is concentrated in a handful of commodities whose prices (notably gold) are driven by global markets largely outside the agency's control, so the marginal contribution of ProDominicana's export-readiness and investment-facilitation services specifically is not independently isolated in the available reporting.

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