Foreign Investment Law of the Dominican Republic
THE NATIONAL CONGRESS
IN THE NAME OF THE REPUBLIC
Art. 1.- For the purposes of this law on foreign investment, the following shall be understood to be:
a) Direct Foreign Investment:
Contributions originating from abroad, belonging to foreign individuals or corporations or individual nationals residing abroad, to the capital of a company operating in national territory;
b) Foreign Reinvestment:
That foreign investment made in whole or in part from the profits originating from a registered foreign company into the same company that generated them;
c) New Foreign Investment:
Foreign investment made in whole or in part from the profits originating from a duly registered direct foreign investment into a company different from that which generated the profits...