According To Countries Of The Central American Region,

According to countries of the Central American region,

Introduction

This treaty was signed with the countries of the Central American region, where the trade of goods, services, investments, intellectual property and public sector purchases were included. The Central America-REP. Sun., It was signed in April 1998, being this, the first of the international trade agreements signed by our country, which entered into force in March 2002.

Developing

Although the negotiation was celebrated with a regional concept between the parties, its application is bilateral and in the case of the Dominican Republic, it was conditioned to the fact that the goods must be prepared outside special regimes.

The objectives of the agreement were among others:

• The interest of stimulating the expansion and multiplicity of the trade of goods and services between the parties;
• Mutually eliminate obstacles to trade;
• Promote and protect foreign investments.
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We have already pointed out that with this agreement, as well as with that of Caricom-RD, the products made in free zones and other special customs regimes, were subject to national treatment, for the Dominican Republic, that is, subject to quotas and the paymentof import tariff, because the incentives granted to these regimes differ in different countries and mark competitive advantage.

This was a condition established in article 4 of the Agreement Protocol.

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In spite of that limitation, we must take into account that with the signing of the commercial treaties of integration, we have been able to receive benefits in the commercial aspects, these positive being for the growth of our economy and those of the countries involved,All this thanks to the elimination of tariff obstacles, an aspect that finally helped improve competition and facilitation of foreign investment.

As our theme is the customs illicit in the light of Law 3489, we must indicate that under the protection of free trade agreements, an illicit called: Technical smuggling or triangulation of goods, which consists of importing products from a country with thethat there is no agreement, through another with which if there are commercial agreement and thus eliminate the tariff tax with which such merchandise is assigned, illegally using the rules of origin established in the determined agreement.

conclusion

In order to ensure that the agreed preferential tariff treatment is applied to the merchandise produced in the countries involved, criteria were established that allow establishing the origin of the merchandise involved in importation. These criteria are established in the so -called rules of origin, which are a complex range of reasoning and elements that provide us with the legal basis that allows us to determine the nationality of the product.