In fact, I believe their food processing plant in San Francisco de Macoris largest or second largest food processing plant in the world. They process their Cibao-grown products there.
I just came from one of my local grocery store - a humongous Giant Food. In the 'ethinic food section.' Right beside a bunch of non-taxed NAFTA product from Mexico I saw the the following Goya product with the label "product of the Dominican Republic": Goya's Green Pigeon Peas Premium, Goya's Canned Coconut Milk, Goya's Red Beans. Also, Goya's Passion Fruit Juice, and pretty much all the other Goya branded tropical juices.
TX, go to the FDA website and you may be shock about how much packaged vegetables, fresh produce and other food stuff is imported from the DR and to the United States. And I'm talking about non-'ethnic' food stuff. There are plenty of Dominican 'ethnic' food stuff that wouldn't well in the U.S., but would do great in Venezuela. There are plenty of Dominican food stuff DR can't sell much of in the United States because of over saturation of the market that may sell well in Venezuela with a favorable tariff there.
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