For the figures of Commercial exchange and those of foreign investment direct, it can be deduced that in recent years French He is liking them negotiate With the Dominicans. If it adds that the Gallic country has become the main source of financing Bilateral for the State, the statement takes greater relevance.
From the French government, desire for the country is not hidden, mainly in terms of credit. In June, the president Emmanuel Macron He told his Dominican counterpart, Luis Abinader, the interest of that nation to finance up to 85 % of the Metropolitan Train (Now Monorriel), according to a press release released by the Presidency.
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To July, the country owed 1,334.3 million dollars, 59.1 % of the Bilateral Dominican debt. Of that amount, 1,294.9 million dollars were credit commitments with the French Development Agency (AFD), an entity that had a fundamental role in initiatives such as the construction and extension of the Metro and the Santo Domingo cable car, the Sierra Plan for reforestation in the Central Cordillera and others
The amount of the State debt Dominican with the Gauls comes in ascent Since 2022, the year in which it amounted to 994.2 million dollars, according to the records of the General Directorate of Public Credit.
Similarly, the foreign investment French direct (FDI) in the Dominican Republic registers a considerable recovery. After reaching its peak in 2019, when it added 239.1 million dollars, in 2020 and 2021, the years of the pandemic of COVID-19registered a fall.
However, he began his recovery In 2022, adding 160.1 million dollars and another 158.5 million the following year, according to the Central Bank Dominican.
Although it still does not reach prepaymia levels, the French investment In the country he closed in 2024 with 163.1 million dollars, becoming the seventh nation with the greatest FDI in national territory That year.
Commercial exchange
The distance between both nations has not prevented the Commercial exchange Among the citizens of the aforementioned European country and the Creoles are also in ascentalthough with a more favorable balance for the Gauls.
Between January and July 2025, the Dominicans sent to France goods for 39.1 million dollars, while the country received goods from that nation for 163.4 million dollars, according to the data of the data of the data of the General Directorate of Customs (DGA).
In terms of Exports to Francesince 2022 the figure has been increasingfrom $ 39.5 million that year to 42.4 million the following period and 51.6 million dollars last year.
In the case of Importsalthough they record a reduction, they still exceed Exports. These fell from the 293.4 million dollars in 2022 to 257 million the following year and in 2024 they totaled $ 256.9 million, according to the DGA.
