The Chamber of Commerce of Santiago is hosting the annual industry and business exhibition in the Central Park of Santiago from Wednesday, 26 September through Sunday, 30 September. The fair highlights primarily goods made in Santiago.
Chamber of Commerce president, Marco Cabral, in his speech to inaugurate the event, called for a cultural change in the Dominican Republic. “That breaking laws and regulations not be the national sport; let’s leave that to our winter baseball players,” he said upon inaugurating the 31st Santiago fair. “We share the opinions of those who say that to export we have to be competitive and to be competitive we need transcendental changes for an effective judicial system where the law is applied to all,” he stated.
He said that tax exemptions should be monitored so that these have a positive impact on the Dominican economy. Cabral also referred to ground transport, which he said is the most expensive in the region. He called for real solutions to the bottleneck that threatens both cargo and passenger transport. He also said the labor code needs to be adapted to the 21st century, highlighting duplicities that create heavy burdens for companies.
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27 September 2018
