NewsWhore
12-03-2008, 03:30 PM
Observers initially welcomed the DR-CAFTA trade agreement with the US and Central America with optimism, but according to Miguel Angel Olivo, president of the Dominican Pig Farmers Federation and spokesman for the farming competitiveness movement, statistics from the US Department of Commerce indicate that between January and June 2008 pork imports (from the US to the DR) reached an unprecedented level with a 294.7% increase, while beef imports increased by 342.94% and chicken and turkey imports increased by 24%. He added these products exceeded the quota established for meat imports and that an estimated 1,500 metric tons of pork and chicken (518 pork and 1,052 chicken) entered the DR without paying the proper tariffs.
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