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06-10-2008, 01:10 PM
Farming specialist Osmar Benitez is calling for more efforts to be made towards the signing of a free trade agreement with Haiti. Benitez says that the DR has three basic consumer markets - the local market, the tourist market and Haitian consumers, both in the DR and in Haiti. He argues that after the local market, the Haitian market is the next most important for the DR and its economy. He stresses that Dominican/Haitian trade relations need to be regulated, and government and business need to move away from the present laissez faire approach. Earlier this year Dominican exporters were complaining about tax gouging at the Haitian border, saying that since there is no fixed tariff structure they were getting charged up to 60% above the expected tariff rates.
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