{"id":138544,"date":"1996-02-22T12:00:00","date_gmt":"1996-02-22T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ny1.dr1.com.do\/wordpress\/?p=138544"},"modified":"1996-02-22T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"1996-02-22T12:00:00","slug":"customs-revenues-increase-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1996\/02\/22\/customs-revenues-increase-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Customs revenues increase"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n<p>The Customs Directorate has announced that its revenues increased in 1995 by 11.5 percent over the previous year. The department reported that its collections amounted to RD$8,635 million. Import duties accounted for 95.6 percent of the total while duties on foreign trade amounted to 37.6 percent, a decrease of 3.4 percent. The government depends heavily on duties levied on foreign trade to finance its budget. This has been vehemently criticized by many economists who see it as a dangerous situation for the nation&#8217;s economic prosperity. The government is seeking to increase inland revenue to remedy this problem.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Customs Directorate has announced that its revenues increased in 1995 by 11.5 percent over the previous year. The department reported that its collections amounted to RD$8,635 million. Import duties accounted for 95.6 percent of the total while duties on foreign trade amounted to 37.6 percent, a decrease of 3.4 percent. The government depends heavily &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/1996\/02\/22\/customs-revenues-increase-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[281,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138544"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}