what currency in dominican republic should i bring?
Dominican peso
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 Nutrition Assistance for Puerto Rico ( NAP ) — Spanish : Programa de Asistencia Nutricional ( PAN ) commonly known in Puerto Rican Spanish as Cupones ( English : Food Stamps ) — is a federal assistance nutritional program provided by the United States Department of Agriculture ( USDA ) solely to Puerto Rico . It provides over $ 1 @.@ 5 billion USD in supplemental economic resources to help just over 1 million impoverished residents cope with their nutritional needs . It is based on , though not directly part of , the USDA 's national Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program . 

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 Dominican Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit declared August 19 , 2007 to be a national day of prayer and thanks @-@ giving . The destruction of 546 residences forced approximately 1 @,@ 000 people into 100 shelters . A USAID disaster specialist liaised with the Dominican Office of Disaster Management and arraigned for assistance to the order of US $ 60 @,@ 648 of relief supplies and $ 25 @,@ 000 of Emergency Shelter supplies . 

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 The Puerto Rico Department of the Family currently provides the benefits to each participating family through a debit card , which replaced the physical cheques in the early 2000s . The monthly benefit is deposited through an electronic benefit transfer ( EBT ) system into a government @-@ designated personal bank account , which can be accessed at any time with the debit card to withdraw cash or to make food purchases from authorized retailers . Since September 2001 , 75 % of each family ’ s monthly benefit has been designated exclusively for making direct food and grocery purchases , while the remaining 25 % can be withdrawn as a cash benefit . The EBT debit card system has improved the program ’ s payment accuracy rate to 96 @.@ 4 % in 2003 , 4 years ahead of its 2007 goal of 95 % accuracy . 

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 Importers are particularly hard hit , with the government restricting foreign currency to essential products such as food , medicines and oil . The € 400 million loan from the central banks of Denmark and Norway is sufficient to pay for a month 's imports , although on 15 October there was still a " temporary delay " which affected " all payments to and from the country " . 

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 Even though the U.S. has imposed a US $ 0 @.@ 54 tariff on every gallon of imported ethanol since 1980 , the Caribbean nations and Central American countries are exempt from such duties based on the benefits granted by the Caribbean Basin Initiative ( CBI ) . CBI provisions allow tariff @-@ free access to the US market from ethanol produced from foreign feedstock ( outside CBI countries ) up to 7 % of the previous year US consumption . Also additional quotas are allowed if the beneficiary countries produce at least 30 % of the ethanol from local feedstocks up to an additional 35 million gallons ( 132 @.@ 5 million liters ) . Thus , several countries have been importing hydrated ethanol from Brazil , processing it at local distilleries to dehydrate it , and then re @-@ exporting it as anhydrous ethanol . American farmers have complained about this loophole to legally bypass the tariff . The 2005 Dominican Republic – Central America Free Trade Agreement ( CAFTA ) maintained the benefits granted by the CBI , and CAFTA provisions established country @-@ specific shares for Costa Rica and El Salvador within the overall quota . An initial annual allowance was established for each country , with gradually increasing annual levels of access to the US market . The expectation is that using Brazilian technology for refining sugar cane – based ethanol , such countries could become net exporters to the United States in the short @-@ term . In August 2007 , Brazil 's President toured Mexico and several countries in Central America and the Caribbean to promote Brazilian ethanol technology . 
