Report of the twenty-sixth fiscal period : dominican customs receivership under the American-Dominican convention of 1924

Abstract

Sir: The tliirtieth annual report of fmancial transactions of the Dominican customs receivership for the calendar year 1936 is respectfully submitted hcrewith. In fulfillment of that portion of the general regulations governing, whicli deais with the subject, there liave been gathered tlie necessary data and appropriate remarks made relating to the principal branches of the work of the year. For convcnience in the matter of reference, the tables of customs collections and disbursements contain comparative statements of the corresponding calendar-fiscal period immediately preceding. Comment necessarily is limited to a review of those topics of principal interest, reflected from the year’s work, and dovelopments in the country, botli commercial and governmental, which bear upon the whole Dominican situation. 'A summary of coimnerce of the foreign trade is incorporated, complete in the usual statistical tables, showing by groups and schedules the volume of imports and exports, together with comparison of similar trade in 1935. As directed bir the regulations, a similar report in Spanish will be prepared for the Dominican Government—necessarily curtailed— to contain certain suggestions and recommendations which may be of valué on belialf of improving administrative features and fiscal measures.