The bi-national market in Dajabon was the scene of some confusion on Friday, 2 October 2015 because Customs, Agriculture, Animal and Vegetable inspectors together with specialized Haitian police were preventing Haitians who had acquired products at the market from entering Haiti with the products that that are included in a ban, as reported in El Nuevo Diario. Earlier in the day many Haitians who had entered the Dominican Republic across the border at Dajabon were able to return home with their purchases.
Nevertheless as of 10am, the Haitian authorities posted customs and immigration officials along with agriculture inspectors and police agents who started seizing products that were carried by Haitians who wanted to return to their country.
The Haitian authorities also stationed customs inspectors and police agents along the banks of the Masacre River to prevent people from wading across with merchandise.
According to El Caribe, traders and truckers are discussing the effects of the Haitian ban on local products. During a meeting held in Dajabon’s Duarte Park bandstand, local traders federation president Freddy Morillo, Fernando Diaz from the retailers association, Geovanni Escoto from the Fenatrado truckers’ union and others agreed to meet next week to identify measures that could be taken in response to the Haitian government’s ban on Dominican exports.
Morillo said the meeting would be held in Santo Domingo. The Fenatrado representative said that his sector was the most adversely affected because they stand to lose 90% of their normal freight volumes.
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