Trade between the DR and Haiti is suffering from obstacles that range from excessive inspections to illegal tolls and a frontier that, in theory at least, is closed. Hoy reports that traders wanting to do business with Haiti are complaining about excessive police controls, with their cargo being stopped “for inspection” as much as 15 times between Jimani on the frontier and Santo Domingo. When the border offices close at 5 pm, trade continues without official sanction, creating more disorder. Dominican traders questioned by reporters said that all the stumbling blocks along the way make it difficult for Haitian traders to visit the country regularly to do business. One Haitian businessman told a group of Dominican counterparts that he and his family enjoyed coming to the Dominican Republic, but that the continual inspections along the road to Santo Domingo and the bothersome police searching for “toll money” in order to allow them to continue with their journey are just too much trouble and will only discourage people like him from making more trips.