Small business wants to sell more desks

[NewsWhore]

The Confederation of Small and Medium-Sized Business (Codopyme) denounced that the Ministry of Education imported RD$700 million in desks for public schools that could have been manufactured in the Dominican Republic at a lower cost. Francisco Capellan, president of the association, said that with the imports, the Ministry violates laws 340-06 and 488-08 that establish the government departments need to purchase at least 20% of their procurement from small and medium sized Dominican companies. Capellan said that in the present administration of the Ministry by Josefina Pimentel efforts are being made to comply with the law, as reported in Hoy.

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