Dolores Vicioso – Page 8106

The president of the Consejo Nacional de la Empresa Privada (CONEP), José Manuel Paliza, told the news media that tariff considerations do not constitute the main source of problems standing in the way of smoother trade relations between the two nations which share the island of Hispaniola. Instead, he thinks that bureaucratic impediments on both …

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Speaking at a meeting of the Asociación Dominicana de Inversión Extranjera (ASIEX), José Francisco Peña Gómez, the presidential candidate of the Partido Revolutionario and a broad coalition of smaller parties, said that the country should sign the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency Convention (MIGA). MIGA, a World Bank affiliate, establishes rules of arbitration to settle disputes …

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The executive vice-president of the Junta Agroempresarial Dominicana, Osmar Benítez, attributes the weak position of Dominican agriculture to the government’s failure to draft a timely proposal for WTO consideration as did most countries, including the United States and the European Union. He says that JAD was the only institution that raised the alarm about the …

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