President Danilo Medina reported after his meeting with the President Michel Martelly and Prime Minister Lamothe of Haiti in Nicaragua that the Haitian ban on eggs and chicken imports from the Dominican Republic is because the Haitian government perceives they should be collecting US$300 million in taxes on the informal imports or contraband.
President Medina explained that in Nicaragua, the President and Prime Minister of Haiti asked me for an interview. They recognized that Dominican chickens and eggs are of good quality. They explained that what they have is a problem with the collection of taxes that they feel should be paid on the exports to Haiti,” explained Medina. The government of Haiti had formally announced the ban on chickens and eggs from the Dominican Republic was due to avian flu. This was proved to not be true, but the ban has maintained.
President Medina and Martelly were in Nicaragua to attend the VIII Petrocaribe Summit in Managua last Saturday.
Medina told reporters from Diario Libre that Martelly asked for his collaboration and to work together to find a way so that the Haitians that buy merchandise in the Dominican Republic pay their taxes when they go through the Haitian customs. When reporters asked why the Haitian authorities hid behind the supposed bird flu outbreak, the Dominican President answered with a short: “I don’t know.”
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