Agreement DR-Cafta is the seven year

R Dominican epública is almost in the "dot" mean with regard to the general relief of duties referred to in the free trade agreement signed between United States, Central America and Dominican Republic (DR-Cafta).

Currently, the Convention is in the seventh year which means that in the next three years the country and the other signatories in the region must be prepared to face the competition that is generated naturally, Pact in foods and beverages.

For the purpose of free trade Convention is in basket "B" in sensitive of the industry and agro-industry products and in 2015 will enter the basket "c".

are called baskets to the groups of goods entering the free trade

Calendar of tariff liberalization in the agricultural sector is scheduled for 12, 15 and 20 years, but with increases in quota and gradual reduction of tariffs. This year the highest tariff of RD, which is 20%, u000awould be in 8%

In the next three years, the products of the industry and agro-industry will come free of tariff (liquid milk, juices, and others).

Behavior followed by the Dominican exporters in terms of DR-Cafta countries import quotas have not been exploited in some areas and in the case of United States, some contributions are underutilized by RD & other countries American. for example, RD does not use its share of ice cream and dairy products, not full of cheese, or uses of sugar and meat.

Consulted thereon, Miguelina Estévez, Coordinator of access to markets for goods from the direction of foreign trade (Dicoex), explained that the percentage of products in free trade by this agreement for RD is currently 83% by 2015 will be 93%.

However, said that the Dicoex and other institutions are working to overcome the health restrictions that have prevented the u000aexports of meat from Rd.

The DR-Cafta was signed in 2005. The tariff of headings and subheadings clearing sessions are grouped into blocks with letters of the alphabet in trade agreements. The first year of DR-Cafta entered with zero tariff a large number of products in A basket. B. basket came in the first five years B, D and m baskets came in 2011

Assessments
Dominican Republic can import from USA. UU. quotas for beef and veal, trimimg (offal) of bovine meat, cuts of pork, bacon, fat of pork thigh of chicken, pieces and offal of chicken, beef and Turkey meat, milk, yogurt, cheese, rice, glucose and beans, through the so-called tariff quotas, which is not more than a certain volume of imports in specified period.

The contingent of DR-Cafta are applied on a reciprocal basis, which is to say that "what is equal is not advantage", but the u000aproblem is that the country has not taken that resource from here towards outside at the same rate as their peers. For this reason, increasingly seen in the local supermarket offers products American and Central Americans, many of whom are already paying one lower customs tariffs percentage, product of the deduction referred to in different baskets and the law and by the volumes traded by contingents.

Consultant
the private consultant and former coordinator of the agreement, Hugo Rivera Fernández, ensures that the country is losing their protection in the agricultural, industrial and commercial area with EE. UU. and the region, and that will waste resources and why millionaires funds are lost in exemptions.

In addition, it believed that in Dr tax has changed by competitiveness, making the sector a "fiscal euthanasia" business.

thereon, explained that Central American Governments are u000aapply six to seven laws that contribute to the development of the productive processes, which cited the law of Maquila, the inward, systems of bonuses and reimbursement of taxes.

Statistics
customs statistics reveal that in the first nine months of 2011 the country imported, taking advantage of the preferences of the DR-Cafta, a value of US$ 853,399,942.69, of which $63.3 million were "Jeep" with four wheel drive, followed by accumulators, lead, lubricants, "pick-up trucks, vans"station-wagon", apples, fillings, fats and oils plant and profiles, among others.

Tonnes of milk

the DR-Cafta Treaty envisages negotiations between RD and Costa Rica, so that it can come to the Dominican nation or Costa Rica (reciprocity) a contingent of 2,200 metric tons of milk powder annually. Free total trade

sensitive agricultural products u000a(beans, garlic, onion, rice, chicken, milk powder, sugar) they have a period of 20 years to enter the total free trade, but there are annual fees referred to in contingents.

AGRO and application DIVERSA troops
the DR-Cafta agreement is multilateral, but has aspects of bilateral, because it provides for the allocation of quotas (volume of imports of certain products at a certain time). Therefore provides for the entry of quotas of rice, chicken, beans and other agro considered sensitive goods, in moments in which production is insufficient or to balance the market. United States awarded him a fee to the lubricants Dominicans.

An agreement is bilateral when there is a compromise between two parties.

EL annex 3.3 REFLECTS the complexities
annex 3.3, the DR-CAFTA on origin rules and the payment and exemption from duties, reflects the complexities of the Convention on u000aaspects of multilateral and bilateral, that while on the one hand are tariffs for the Dominican case and Central America, on the other, set a term for the product originating in the United States. UU. It can enter free, after a gradual clearing.

This is the case of milk powder, which pay tariffs upon entering RD, and they may also enter annual fees.

This year ENTRARÁN more assessments of goods
this year will come under DR-Cafta almost 329, 000 shares quintals of rice and nearly 10,000 quintals of chicken, and more than 5,000 metric tons of the milk.

May enter contingent of 1,700 metric tons of beef and veal, trimimg 340, 6,000 cuts of pork, Bacon 340, 850 chicken thighs, 5,950 of Turkey meat, 340, liquid milk, milk powder, from EE 4,950. UU.

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