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	The Dominican Republic
		Dominican Republic, USA Eye FTA Signing for Mar 12, 2004.
		Request for Independent Review of the Status of the Dominican Republic as a GSP beneficiary developing country in relation to Changed Circumstances, under Title V of the Trade Act of 1974, 19 USC 2461 et seq., Section 502 (d).
		This proposal was approved by the Senate on November and it is pending of aproval by the House of Representatives.
	www.cptech.org /ip/health/c/dr (726 words)

	Dominican Republic
		The Dominican labor code establishes that 80 percent of the labor force of a foreign company, including free trade zone companies, be composed of Dominican nationals (although the management or administrative staff of a foreign company is exempt from this regulation).
		While the Dominican Republic has ratified the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty, as of January 17, 2005 the World Intellectual Property Organization as treaty registrar had not recorded the deposit by the Dominican Republic of its instruments of ratification for these two treaties.
		The Dominican Labor Code, which became law in June 1992, is a comprehensive piece of legislation which establishes policies and procedures for many aspects of employer/employee relationships, ranging from hours of work and overtime and vacation pay to severance pay, causes for termination, and union registration.
	www.state.gov /e/eb/ifd/2005/43024.htm (3429 words)

	InternationalReports.net : Dominican Republic 2002
		During the last five years, the Dominican Republic had an average economic growth of 8%, partly due to the world economic scenario and to important local economic and legal reforms that attracted more investment.
		The Dominican Republic ended the year 2001 with a 3% GDP growth rate –above the average 0.5% of Latin America and the Caribbean.
		The government’s projections of growth for 2002 are estimated at 3.5%, with an estimated inflation of 6% and its budget at RD$73.9 billion.
	www.internationalreports.net /theamericas/dr/2002/snapshot.html (189 words)

	Dominican Republic. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The president, senate, and chamber of deputies are all directly elected for four-year terms.
		The major parties are the conservative Social Christian Reformist party, organized by Joaquín Balaguer, the rival and social-democratic Dominican Revolutionary party, organized by Juan Bosch (both men served as president of the country), and the centrist Dominican Liberation party.
		After Spain by the Treaty of Basel (1795) ceded the colony of Santo Domingo to France, the area now known as the Dominican Republic was conquered by Haitians under Toussaint L’Ouverture.
	www.bartleby.com /65/do/DominicanR.html (1086 words)

	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
		Black Dominicans have managed to acquire a positive public image in sports, music and dance, but a wider range of jobs still tend to require "buena presencia," which, in addition to a clean and tidy appearance, means light-skinned, and for women, it also suggests that the job applicant be young and attractive.
		Members of the Coordinadora agreed that it is common practice for the police to arrest a wife or female relative of an accused and to hold her in prison to force an accused to turn himself in to the authorities.
		As a well-respected Dominican journalist said: "the value of fatherhood is being lost, with nothing to replace it." This is reflected by a disturbing new pattern in migration.
	iwraw.igc.org /publications/countries/dominican_republic.htm (8547 words)

	Caribbean Net News: Dominican Republic (2)
		SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic: To follow up on a promise he had made during his last state of the nation address, President Leonel Fernández of the Dominican Republic was presented Tuesday a final draft of the 'Plan for Democratic Security' by a commission he had charged with its writing...
		SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic: President Fernandez, of the Dominican Republic, in a televised address to the nation Tuesday evening, said his government would continue subsidizing propane gas for home and transport use, basing his decision on the reasoning that “it is only now, when the economy starts gaining some strength”...
		Merengue is the craze in the Dominican Republic
	www.caribbeannetnews.com /domrep/domrep2.htm (2411 words)

	Dominican Republic (06/06)
		Economic difficulties, the threat of European intervention, and ongoing internal disorders led to a U.S. occupation in 1916 and the establishment of a military government in the Dominican Republic.
		The Dominican Republic maintains an embassy in the United States at 1715 22d Street NW, Washington, DC 20008 (tel.
		The Dominican Republic owed much of its success to the adoption of sound macroeconomic policies in the early 1990s and greater opening to foreign investment.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/35639.htm (3433 words)

	Dominican Republic
		The Dominican Republic is located on the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola and is 18,816 square miles (48,734 square kilometers), about twice the size of New Hampshire.
		The western portion of the island is occupied by the republic of Haiti.
		Dominicans pride themselves on the purity of their Spanish and it is considered by some to be the most classical Castilian spoken in Latin America.
	www.everyculture.com /Cr-Ga/Dominican-Republic.html (6986 words)

	Caribbean Net News: US Senate passes Dominican Republic free trade deal
		WASHINGTON, USA (AFP): The US Senate has approved a controversial free trade pact with Central America and the Dominican Republic by a close 54-45 vote, with a battle likely at its next stage in the House of Representatives.
		The key test in the Senate came late Thursday after the House Ways and Means Committee voted largely along party lines to implement the trade pact with Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua.
		A series of reports by the International Labor Rights Fund commissioned by the Labor Department and released in April at the insistence of Democratic House of Representatives member Sander Levin, said labor conditions in Central America and the Dominican Republic were dismal, and that enforcement of labor laws was weak.
	www.caribbeannetnews.com /2005/07/02/passes.shtml (785 words)

	Dominican Republic News & Travel Information Service
		Though the PLD party controls the lower chamber of Congress, and the political committee of the PLD has instructed all its legislators to vote in favor of the reform or face sanctions, it is not a question of plain sailing.
		Garcia, a father of three, had been accused of the murder of the man in the Bronx, but oddly enough Garcia was in the Dominican Republic at the time of the murder leaving many to wonder why this simple fact wasn't used as part of his defense.
		Four Dominican firefighters out of a group of five who were sent to the United States for training have not returned to the DR. The firefighting team departed from the Cibao International Airport in Santiago.
	www.dr1.com (2956 words)

	Dominican Republic
		After concluding an IMF agreement, balancing the budget, and curtailing inflation, the Dominican Republic is experiencing a period of economic growth marked by moderate inflation, a balance in external accounts, and a steadily increasing GDP.
		The Dominican Republic and Cuba recently established consular relations, and there is contact in fields such as commerce, culture, and sports.
		Although the Dominican Republic is a signatory to the Paris Convention and the Universal Copyright Convention, and in 1991 became a member of the World Intellectual Property Organization, the lack of a strong regulatory environment results in inadequate protection of intellectual property rights.
	www.onlinelearning.net /instructors/smurr/LatAm/Carib/dmnrep.html (5791 words)

	Senate of the Dominican Republic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Senate (Senado) is the upper house of the Dominican Republic's bicameral National Congress.
		The lower house is the Chamber of Deputies.
		It currently comprises 32 senators who are elected for four-year terms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Senate_of_the_Dominican_Republic (217 words)

	International Peacemaking and Human Rights Programs - Dominican Republic - CarterCenter.org
		The entrance to 19 polling stations in the Dominican Republic during the 1996 presidential election.
		Dominican women waiting in line to cast their ballots during the 1996 presidential election.
		The observers said the administration of the elections was enhanced by a new, modernized registry and by verification of the registry prior to the election.
	www.cartercenter.org /countries/dominican_republic.html (631 words)

	Dominican Revolutionary Party - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Dominican Revolutionary Party (Spanish: Partido Revolucionario Dominicano, or PRD) is one of the main political parties of the Dominican Republic, currently the second most powerful party.
		The party was founded in 1939 by Dominican exiles in Havana, Cuba.
		At the legislative elections, on the 16th of May 2002, the party won 41.9% of the popular vote and 73 out of 150 seats in the Chamber of Deputies and 29 out of 31 seats in the Senate of the Dominican Republic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dominican_Revolutionary_Party (273 words)

	Dominican Republic Peso, Currency of the DR, DOP
		The political structure of the Dominican Republic is known as a "representative democracy," where national power is divided amongst independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
		Economic Overview: The Dominican Republic, a representative democracy of the Caribbean, enjoyed strong GDP growth of more than 7% in 1998-2000 (which later plummeted as part of the global economic slowdown).
		The Dominican Republic suffers from large income inequality, as the poorest half of the population receives less than one fifth of the GNP, while the richest 10% enjoys almost 40% of the national income.
	www.gocurrency.com /countries/dominican_republic.htm (506 words)

	Dominican Republic government information
		The Dominican Republic Currently enjoys a new constitution, which was ratified in 1994 ~ and a stable democratic process that has been in place for that last thirty years.
		The democratically elected legislative branch consists of the congress, which is split between the Senate and Chamber of Deputies.
		Senators are elected to a four year term and there are 30 seats in the senate.
	www.thedominicanrepublic.net /government.html (403 words)

	Dominican Republic Occupation (1916-24)
		Although parts of this agreement were rejected by the United States Senate, it formed the basis for the establishment in April 1905 of the General Customs Receivership, the office through which the United States government administered the finances of the Dominican Republic.
		Most Dominicans, however, greatly resented the loss of their sovereignty to foreigners, few of whom spoke Spanish or displayed much real concern for the welfare of the republic.
		Moderate Dominican leaders, however, used the plan as the basis for further negotiations that resulted in an agreement allowing for the selection of a provisional president to rule until elections could be organized.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/ops/dominican-republic-1916.htm (1382 words)

	Dominican Republic: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — FactMonster.com
		The Dominican Republic in the West Indies occupies the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola, which it shares with Haiti.
		The Dominican Republic was explored by Columbus on his first voyage in 1492.
		A sergeant in the Dominican army trained by the marines, Rafaél Leonides Trujillo Molina, overthrew Horacio Vásquez in 1930 and established a dictatorship that lasted until his assassination in 1961, 31 years later.
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0107475.html (814 words)

	Dominican Republic Information , Hotel , Travel & News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Dominican Republic has a long history of political instability which includes many revolutions, coups d'Ètat, barracks revolts, and insurrections, as well as social and political breakdowns.
		The Dominican Republic has large-scale organizations, such as political parties, interest groups, professional associations, and bureacratic organizations, but often the informal networks are as important, and therefore, the most difficult for outsiders to penetrate and to understand.
		To comprehend Dominican politics, therefore, one must understand first of all the family networks: who is related to whom, and how and what (if anything) these family ties mean.
	www.dominicanrepublic.com /thecountry/politics.php (792 words)

	Theodore Roosevelt and the Dominican Republic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Dominican Republic occupies the eastern two thirds of the island of Hispaniola, located in the Caribbean east of Jamaica and Cuba.
		The Dominican Republic, under behind-the-scenes diplomatic pressure, requested that the United States intervene to put the island's financial house in order.
		The Senate, still smarting from the president’s handling of Panamanian events, reacted angrily when it learned of Roosevelt’s end run around their constitutional responsibility.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h946.html (641 words)

	Dominican Republic - The Legislature
		One senator is elected from each of the country's provinces and from the National District (Santo Domingo).
		The Senate and the Chamber of Deputies may meet together as the National Assembly on certain specific occasions cited by the Constitution--for example, when both the president and the vice president are unable to complete their terms of office and a successor must be designated.
		In contrast, the Senate has several exclusive powers: selecting members of the Supreme Court and other lower courts, choosing the president and the members of the Central Electoral Board, approving diplomatic appointments made by the president, and hearing cases of public misconduct brought before it by the Chamber of Deputies.
	countrystudies.us /dominican-republic/58.htm (480 words)

	GovTrack: Senate Record: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC-CENTRAL AMERICA-UNITED... (109-s20050630-4) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		President, in a narrow sense, the Senate today is considering the free-trade agreement with five Central American countries and the Dominican Republic, but in a...
		Every Senator knows it is not here in accordance with the Constitution, and yet we all put on our dark suits and come to the Chamber and vent for hours, acting as if nothing has changed, nothing is wrong, we have not read the Constitution.
		Grassley; Senator Harkin, 20 minutes, with the time to be taken out of the time allocated to the Senator from North Dakota; and Senator Graham, 15 minutes, with the time to be taken out of the time allocated to Senator Grassley.
	www.govtrack.us /congress/record.xpd?id=109-s20050630-4 (17439 words)

	Dominican Republic Government
		John Schroder lives in the Dominican Republic and is associated with Ascot Advisory Services.
		Ascot Advisory assists clients with residency in the Dominican Republic, local incorporations (and other services such as Panama Foundations), assistance with banking introductions and investment advice, plus assistance with matters such as title search.
		The Dominican Republic Currently enjoys a new constitution, which was ratified in 1994 and changed again during the tenure of the last President (2000 - 2004) and a stable democratic process that has been in place for that last thirty years.
	www.thedominicanrepublic.net /government.htm (537 words)

	Senate passes DR-CAFTA in closest vote since NAFTA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Senate passed the Dominican Republic-Central American Free Trade Agreement in one of the closest votes — 54 to 45 — on a free trade agreement since the passage of NAFTA in 1993.
		The Senate vote on DR-CAFTA was considered too close to call going into the week of the vote on June 30.
		But previously reluctant senators like Saxby Chambliss, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee, decided to throw their support behind it after receiving assurances that USDA would limit imports of Central American sugar.
	deltafarmpress.com /news/070105cafta-vote (469 words)

	Dominican Republic
		War ensign and jack (as of 1939): This is one of the five dominican naval flags in Flaggenbuch (1939-1941) [neu39].
		The flag of the Dominican Republic is detailed in the Constitution, and whilst this lays down a width for the cross it does not give a ratio.
		This emblem is similar to the flag design and shows a bible, a cross of gold, 4 Dominican flags and two spears on a pattern from the flag.
	www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/do.html (978 words)

	American Experience \| Ulysses S. Grant \| People & Events \| Charles Sumner, 1811-1874
		Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts made a name for himself as an advocate of liberal causes.
		And the Dominican Republic not only contained valuable natural resources, but was a market for American goods as well.
		In a scathing Senate speech, Sumner also pointed out that annexing the Dominican Republic would dissolve one of only two fl-led nations in the Caribbean.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/grant/peopleevents/p_sumner.html (633 words)

	JURIST - Dominican Republic: Dominican Law, Legal Research, Human Rights
		The Dominican Republic is a representative democracy whose national powers are divided among independent executive, legislative, and judicial branches.
		Legislative power is exercised by a bicameral congress--the senate (30 members), and the chamber of deputies (120 members).
		The Dominican Republic Government's human rights record was poor in 2001, and serious problems remain.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /world/dominican.htm (491 words)

	Dominican Republic Senate lifts import tax on HFCS Food & Drink Weekly - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Senate Finance Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said last week that the Senate in the Dominican Republic voted to lift its tax on imports of high fructose corn syrup.
		This sends an important signal that the Government of the Dominican Republic is willing and able to fulfill the obligations required to be a full partner in the Central American Free Trade Agreement.
		It also is extremely good news for the U.S. high fructose corn syrup industry, which would have been locked out of the Dominican Republic market had the tax remained in place.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EUY/is_48_10/ai_n12941079 (252 words)

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