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In 2015, Dominican Republic exported US$61m worth of goods while importing US$38m. The DR's exports to Cuba grew by 70% between 2010 and 2015, while Cuban exports grew by 38% over the same period. In 2018, Cuba and the DR formalized a trade deal to reduce tariffs for products being shipped between them. In addition, the trade deal includes ...
The Antillean Confederation was the proposed idea of Ramón Emeterio Betances about the need for peoples of the Spanish-speaking Greater Antilles in the Caribbean to unite into an alliance in order to preserve the sovereignty and interests of Cuba, Dominican Republic, and Puerto Rico.
The illegal or undocumented component of the Dominican immigration to Puerto Rico has increased over recent decades, becoming large enough to attract great attention, both in Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. The first recorded illegal trip took place in 1972, and perhaps 28% of all Dominicans in Puerto Rico were undocumented in 1996 ...
The quality of life within the Greater Antilles is similar among Cuba, the Dominican Republic and Jamaica, whose Human Development Index categorizes them as "high human development". Cuba, the independent nation with the highest HDI, nevertheless ranks below Puerto Rico and the Cayman Islands, both of which are categorized as "very high".
A map of all Caricom countries and associate members. A member state of the Caribbean Community is a state that has been specified as a member state within the Treaty of Chaguaramas or any other Caribbean state that is in the opinion of the Conference, able and willing to exercise the rights and assume the obligations of membership in accordance with article 29 of the Treaty of Chaguaramas.
Cuba is not included in the list due to lack of economic data. Of the countries listed, some are not independent: Aruba is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and Puerto Rico is a United States territory with special status and thus is measured separately from the U.S. by the World Economic Outlook.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio meeting with Dominican Republic president Luis Abinader in 2025. The country's standing as the largest Caribbean economy, second-largest country in terms of land mass, and third-largest in population, with large bilateral trade with (due to its proximity to) the United States and other smaller Caribbean nations make the Dominican Republic an important partner ...
Exports from the United States, including those from Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, to the Dominican Republic in 2005 totaled $5.3 billion, up 11% from the previous year. The Dominican Republic exported $4.5 billion to the United States in 2006, equaling some 75% of its export revenues.