Dominican Republic Freezes Key Fuel Prices with RD$186.3M Subsidy

SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — The Dominican Republic government will keep prices for widely used fuels unchanged for the week of November 29 to December 5, 2025, allocating a subsidy of 186.3 million Dominican pesos (RD$) to stabilize costs.

Ramón Pérez Fermín, Vice Minister of Internal Commerce at the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Mipymes (MICM), confirmed the measure. The subsidy specifically targets liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), regular diesel, and optimum diesel.

LPG will receive a subsidy of RD$6.06 per gallon, while regular diesel will be subsidized by RD$20.00 per gallon. Optimum diesel will see a subsidy of RD$14.61 per gallon.

For the upcoming week, premium gasoline will sell for RD$290.10 per gallon, maintaining its current price. Regular gasoline will also remain stable at RD$272.50 per gallon.

Regular diesel will hold at RD$224.80 per gallon, and optimum diesel will be RD$242.10 per gallon, both unchanged.

Several other fuel types will see price reductions. Avtur (jet fuel) will decrease by RD$10.60 to RD$202.26 per gallon. Kerosene will drop by RD$11.40, selling for RD$234.20 per gallon.

Fuel oil #6 will fall by RD$5.54 to RD$144.74 per gallon, and fuel oil 1%S will decrease by RD$5.36 to RD$161.57 per gallon.

Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) will maintain its price at RD$137.20 per gallon, and natural gas will remain at RD$43.97 per cubic meter.

The average weekly exchange rate used for these calculations is RD$63.06, based on daily publications from the Central Bank.