THE PLATFORM
Built for a Strategic Food System.
AFG integrates sourcing, certified manufacturing, compliance, and logistics into one operating system.
Aggregated across the hemisphere. Manufactured in the Dominican Republic. Delivered under U.S. law.
Access is not assumed. It is qualified.
Caucedo → Miami (≈30 hours). DR-CAFTA. BRCGS AA. FDA-registered. SMETA-audited.
THE REALIGNMENT
Two halves of one realignment.
For seventy years, the global food system optimized for one variable: cost.
It was built on assumptions that no longer hold — open trade, stable rules, cheap capital, predictable lanes.
Tariffs reorganized the cost map. Compliance reorganized who can sell. Geopolitics reorganized which corridors remain advantaged. Standards reorganized what counts as supply at all.
What looked efficient was dependent on conditions the old system did not control. When those conditions changed, the architecture stopped delivering the result it was designed to deliver.
The realignment is not a forecast. It is the operating environment AFG was built into.
01 · RUPTURE
The commodity food system broke under tariffs, compliance, and trade realignment.
02 · ADAPTATION
Buyers responded by moving qualification upstream of price.
03 · INSTITUTIONAL ANSWER
Americas Food Gateway was built on the gate side of that realignment.
THE ARCHITECTURE, OPERATING
HOW BUYERS QUALIFY
The buying process changed.
Procurement once began with unit cost. Today it begins earlier — with qualification, co-development capacity, continuity, and standards. Price is the last gate, not the first.
Six gates open the contract. Price arrives at the seventh.
- 01
Co-development capacity
Can the supplier sit at the formulation table, not only at the price table?
- 02
Speed-to-spec
Can a change order land in days, not in quarters?
- 03
Proximity to market
Three days to the U.S. East Coast, not three weeks across an ocean.
- 04
Standards compliance
BRCGS AA, FDA-registered, SMETA-audited, DR-CAFTA — document-ready, not aspirational.
- 05
Continuity of supply
Counterparty-of-record on a U.S. legal entity, not a brokerage relationship that ends with the season.
- 06
Scale responsiveness
Manufacturing footprint that absorbs a Tier-1 ramp without breaking the audit posture.
This is the environment Americas Food Gateway was built to meet.
WHAT THIS MEANS FOR YOU
Procurement is no longer only about price.
It is about coordinating supply that actually works. Speed. Certainty. Fewer points of failure.
Americas Food Gateway was built to make that work easier to operate.
WHAT WE DO FOR OUR PARTNERS
We make complex supply simpler to operate.
We reduce friction across the points where supply chains typically break.
- 01
Qualification
We operate on the qualified side of the market. BRCGS AA, FDA-registered, SMETA-audited — documented, not aspirational. The buyer's procurement organization reads the file before the first commercial meeting is scheduled.
- 02
Product development
From concept to aisle. We help partners turn concepts into shelf-ready food products — formulation, pack format, labeling stack, certification posture — with fewer gaps between idea and first commercial run.
- 03
Market access
Positioned for entry into Tier-1 U.S. markets. Rossi Foods, Inc. carries the U.S. counterparty-of-record posture the buyer's import-side compliance team requires before the first purchase order is cut.
- 04
Supply continuity
Shorter routes. Aligned sourcing. Fewer disruptions. Caucedo and Haina to the U.S. East Coast under DR-CAFTA, against a single counterparty, on a lane the audit posture does not interrupt.
- 05
Execution
Every function is owned. Accountability is built in. Named operators, on the floor, under a federated holding structure — not a brokerage relationship that ends with the season.
THE DIFFERENCE
Most suppliers compete on price. We compete on readiness.
MOST SUPPLIERS
- Quote product.
- React to orders.
- Manage one part of the chain.
AMERICAS FOOD GATEWAY
- Integrates sourcing, transformation, and distribution.
- Operates behind a documented compliance posture.
- Co-develops products with the partner.
- Delivers into qualified markets.
Price opens conversations. Qualification closes them.
HOW WE MAKE YOUR JOB EASIER
The work a procurement desk can hand off.
WORK NO LONGER REQUIRED OF THE DESK
- Qualifying suppliers from scratch.
- Coordinating fragmented vendors.
- Managing compliance risk manually.
- Chasing product across long supply chains.
WORK THE DESK CAN SCALE
- Move faster.
- Consolidate supply.
- Reduce operational risk.
- Scale with confidence.
We do not add another vendor. We reduce the number the desk has to carry.
THE ARCHITECTURE
One holding company. One institutional manufacturer.
Americas Food Gateway is the BVI holding company. Sylvan Foods is the Article 6(c) Special Free Zone manufacturer in Santo Domingo. Rossi Foods Inc. is the U.S. legal and operating counterparty of record, Delaware-registered, FSVP-covered. One structure. Two operating entities. One accountable institutional platform.
THE REGULATORY STACK
The New Gate.
Tier-1 U.S. buyers do not negotiate on compliance. The framework below names the three jurisdictional gates the platform operates under — Dominican free-zone law, the DR–U.S. treaty, and U.S. traceability rule. The five Sylvan certifications that earn passage through those gates are named in the Roster that follows.
Law 8-90 · Art. 6(c)
Dominican Special Free Zone regime. The legal architecture that makes an Article 6(c) manufacturer tax-advantaged, export-dedicated, and audit-transparent.
DR-CAFTA
Dominican Republic–Central America–United States Free Trade Agreement. The treaty architecture that purpose-builds the DR→U.S. institutional lane for food.
FSMA 204
FDA Food Traceability Final Rule — effective 20 January 2026. Lot-level traceability across key foods, now a counterparty requirement in every Tier-1 U.S. contract.
THE CARTOGRAPHY
Sourcing. Corridor. Markets.
Three acts, drawn on real geography. Certified-origin inputs converge on Santo Domingo, clear a single institutional manufacturer, and radiate into the U.S. East Coast and three European consumer gateways.
THE ROSTER
Written. Audited. On file.
The platform operates under Sylvan Foods, the Article 6(c) manufacturing entity of the group. The credentials below are current in writing; the commercial qualification above them is active under contract.
COMMERCIAL QUALIFICATION
Approved Private-Label Manufacturer.
Qualified supplier to tier-1 North American foodservice distributors. Private-label production under active contract. Counterparty references available on request under NDA.
COMPLIANCE ROSTER
BRCGS Global Standard for Food Safety
Issue 9 · Grade AA
Certificate 19/6325
Valid 24 Jun 2025 – 19 Jul 2026
SMETA — Sedex Ethical Trade Audit
2-Pillar Audit
Ref ZAA600174213
Audited 16 December 2025
FDA Food Facility Registration
Active · Biennial renewal
Registration No. 5753889626
Renewed 23 October 2024
FSMA 204 Traceability Rule
Not Applicable by Scope
Outside FDA Food Traceability List
Cooked, processed, IQF vegetables
FSVP Importer of Record
Rossi Foods, Inc. · Formerly Rossi Eggplant Cutlets, Inc.
DUNS 55-618-6336
First filing 2017 · Continuous
Zona Franca Especial
Article 6(c) · Law 8-90
Resolución No. 2-20-ZFE
CNZFE · Dominican Republic
Certificates, audit reports, and counterparty references on file. Available on request under NDA.
