LATEST ALERTS
8th October 2024
- Dominican Republic: The government aims to introduce an import duty of 20% on e-cigarettes. The measure is included in the Tax Modernisation Project presented by the government yesterday (7th October). The import duty aims to regulate the access of these products to the Dominican market while increasing the country’s tax revenue.
1st June 2023
Dominican Republic: The minister of public health called on young people yesterday, World No Tobacco Day, to stop using e-cigarettes. He said “their effects are related to multiple ailments because they contain toxic agents that can cause complications in the respiratory tract, lungs, and even cancer”.
2nd May 2023
Dominican Republic: Members of the centre-left Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM), the ruling party, have reaffirmed support for a bill to regulate e-cigarettes and heated tobacco devices, including banning their sale to under-18s, press reports. The bill also has the backing of the opposition Fuerza del Pueblo (People’s Force) party.
16th December 2022
- Dominican Republic: The special commission of the Chamber of Deputies working on the bill regulating heated tobacco and electronic cigarettes held a meeting yesterday with doctors and medical organisations from different specialisms in order to discuss their views in relation to these products, press reports. Doctors said that nicotine product usage is excessive in the country and that even if they are less harmful than traditional tobacco products, they are still harmful. They agreed that electronic cigarettes are an alternative for consumers to combustible tobacco products.
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