Protabaco publishes its legal, corporate and regulatory identity in full so that customers, suppliers, banks and compliance teams can verify the company independently before doing business with us.
Registered name — PROTABACCO EXIM, S.R.L.
Trading as — Protabaco
Registered trade name — PROTABACO, ONAPI registration 805818, granted 28 May 2024, valid to 28 May 2034
ONAPI registration (registered entity) — 533837
Legal form — Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada (S.R.L.)
Country — Dominican Republic
Note on spelling. The registered entity is PROTABACCO EXIM, with a double C. The registered trade name is PROTABACO, with a single C. Both spellings are correct and appear exactly as recorded in the respective registries.
RNC (taxpayer number) — 1-31-63417-6
Commercial registry — 15936STI, Cámara de Comercio y Producción de Santiago
D-U-N-S number — 72-756-4438
Registered address — Ave. 27 de Febrero, Parque Industrial Eduardo Leon Jimenes, #3, Santiago de los Caballeros, Santiago, RD 51000
Telephone — +1 (809) 770-4137
Email — info@protabaco.do
Company founded — 2017
Tobacco machinery components operation established — 2019
Employees — 15 as of September 2026
Protabaco is an approved free-zone company. The Consejo Nacional de Zonas Francas de Exportación (CNZFE), the Dominican Republic’s free-zone regulator, approved PROTABACCO EXIM, S.R.L. by Resolución No. 21-19-PI.
We prepare and handle our own export documentation for every shipment.
Santiago, Dominican Republic — primary warehouse and technical office.
Sarmenstorf, Switzerland — European receiving and consolidation hub, operated with our partner RIM (Reto Iten Metals AG), CHE-103.874.852.
Protabaco is a trade name registered in the Dominican Republic to Protabacco Exim, S.R.L. with the Oficina Nacional de la Propiedad Industrial (ONAPI) under registration number 805818, granted on 28 May 2024 and valid to 28 May 2034.
We are an independent Dominican Republic company. We are not affiliated with, and have no connection to, any of the following similarly named companies:
Protabaco S.A.S. / Productora Tabacalera de Colombia — Bogota, Colombia
Protabaco AG — Burg AG, Switzerland
Protabaco, S.A. — a Dominican company registered in 1985 and dissolved in 2005
Any enquiry regarding those companies should be directed to them.
RIM (Reto Iten Metals AG), Sarmenstorf, Switzerland. Partner since February 2019. RIM operates our European receiving and consolidation hub and supports European procurement, receiving, consolidation and stock coordination for Protabaco. Swiss company register CHE-103.874.852.
Arkote Ltd., Sheffield, United Kingdom and Fi-Tech, Inc., Richmond, Virginia, USA. Strategic alliance concluded in Santiago in July 2025, under which Protabaco is the stocking and technical support partner in the Dominican Republic for Arkote knives and Adamantine diamond grinding discs.
Max Schlatterer GmbH & Co. KG (Esband), Herbrechtingen, Germany. Official distributor and representative for the Dominican Republic for tobacco and cigarette tapes and belts, since March 2026.
Our registered trade name can be checked against the ONAPI register under registration number 805818. Our RNC and commercial registry number can be checked against the Dominican taxpayer registry (DGII) and the Cámara de Comercio y Producción de Santiago. Our D-U-N-S number can be checked with Dun & Bradstreet.
Our free-zone status can be confirmed with the CNZFE. Our partner relationships can be confirmed directly with Arkote Ltd., Fi-Tech, Inc. and Max Schlatterer GmbH & Co. KG. If your procurement or compliance team needs documentation on file, write to info@protabaco.do and we will provide it.
Official search pages. Each registry requires a manual search; these links open the relevant consultation page.
ONAPI — distinctive signs and trade names ↗
DGII — RNC taxpayer lookup ↗
Dun & Bradstreet — D-U-N-S lookup ↗
Zefix — Swiss commercial register (RIM) ↗
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Information current as of September 2026.
