Kai Schoenhals says urgently need resolving obstacles competitiveness

The country must definitively the problem electric so that local industries to compete with other Nations, especially in Central America, in the case of manufactured export purposes, and more now that Handango the Organization World of the Commerce (WTO) has taken a decision that prevents RD to apply a tariff of 38% as it had been doing so far.

So yesterday said the President of the Dominican Association of exporters (Adoexpo), Kai Schoenhals, who felt that that was the first goal that the authorities should be set so that there can be competition on equal terms.

"Unfortunately the WTO decided instead to the country, but in no way puts us in trouble;" also to the United States, Europe, Turkey, China, Germany and Central America is them has condemned in some instances of this agency and the decision concerning Dominican Republic what he says is that u000aLet apply 38% tariff ", argued Schoenhals.

View of the Adoexpo President, must find a way how to protect domestic industries that create jobs in Dominican Republic.

"Always countries have to protect their industries because through them is that jobs are created and that is where is the welfare of the peoples", underlined.

Schoenhals pointed out that the charging of the tariff of 38% instead of 20% which had been applied Dominican Republic is contrary to the agreement, so now the country may not apply the tariff on 20%.

Explained that recovery of the normal tariff of 20% instead of 38% was applied, which means that there will be one margin of competitiveness for local companies which will have to compete with the prices of production than in Costa Rica are cheaper, mainly in the manufacture of polypropylene and fabric bags u000atubular.

the conflict that resulted in the failure of the WTO in favour of Central America was generated since RD imposing a rate of 38% to the bags of polypropylene and tubular fabric settings.

Accused Dominican Republic of having violated the trade rules to which it is subject, by having imposed tariffs on imports of Central American of tubular fabric and bags of polypropylene, which are used to package food and agro-industrial and industrial products in its final report the WTO.

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