THE FOOD BASKET FOR THE AMERICAS
Enter Americas Food Gateway.
The food basket for the Americas.
Trade realignment disrupted access to food — not lack of food. The new world order calls for new food systems that connect globally sourced crops to the demanding markets of the Americas. Americas Food Gateway is that system: aggregated across the hemisphere, manufactured in the Dominican Republic, delivered under U.S. law.
THE THESIS
$213 billion
of food imported into the United States in 2024.
Almost 98% of it was the kind America cannot grow at scale. In a generation, food has shifted from commodity to strategic asset — priced, regulated, and procured the way energy and semiconductors are.
Source: USDA Economic Research Service, U.S. Agricultural Trade at a Glance, 2024.
THE BOTTLENECK
$33.6 billion
in U.S.–Dominican Republic trade, 2024. Trade has realigned to the hemisphere.
1 in 100
food importers passes FDA's foreign-supplier inspections.
The chain is not strained for lack of food. It is strained because trade has realigned faster than certified industrial capacity. Most foreign suppliers cannot clear the U.S. food-safety stack — FSMA, FSVP, FSMA 204 — that institutional buyers now require at contract. Demand is there. Compliant manufacturing is the bottleneck.
Sources: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (2024); FDA Data & Compliance Dashboard (2017–2022).
THE NETWORK
A live network, not a thesis.
From Caucedo, seven institutional destinations across the North Atlantic. The lanes are open. The platform is operating.
Caucedo · Dominican Republic
Gateway origin · Article 6(c) free-zone regime
U.S. East Coast
Miami · Port Everglades · Jacksonville · NY / Newark
Western Europe
Felixstowe · Genoa · Algeciras
Source: Natural Earth · Orthographic projection · Lanes rendered as great circles.
AMERICAS FOOD GATEWAY
1.76 million
containers moved through DP World Caucedo in 2025. We operate on that port, under that law, into that market.
Globally sourced. Nearshore manufactured in the Dominican Republic under Article 6(c) of Law 8-90. Delivered into the United States under U.S. law — FSMA-compliant, FSVP-verified, FDA-registered, BRCGS-audited. A single institutional counterparty for food at scale.
The food basket for the Americas.
Source: DP World, 2025 annual throughput announcement.
THE RECORD
Generations of visionary leaders. Operational depth of bench.
Americas Food Gateway is the food-systems extension of Grupo Tavares — a Dominican family enterprise founded in 1921 that has built and operated industrial platforms across six sectors for four generations: construction, industrial parks, finance, technology, logistics, and now food. A century of operating discipline, now aimed at the hemisphere's food system.
The operating bench.
Juan E. Tavares
Founder & Executive Chairman
Remer Lane
President · Sylvan Foods
Ricardo Rosa
Chief Operating Officer
Atilio Vargas
Chief Quality & Compliance Officer
Ariel Ferreyra
Chief Commercial Officer
Jesús Estrella
VP, Manufacturing Operations
Source: Grupo Tavares — founded 1921, Santiago de los Caballeros, Dominican Republic.
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