{"id":21456,"date":"2008-12-17T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/milk-prices-to-increase\/"},"modified":"2008-12-17T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2008-12-17T01:43:56","slug":"milk-prices-to-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2008\/12\/17\/milk-prices-to-increase\/","title":{"rendered":"Milk prices to increase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Powdered milk prices could go up in January, Juan Ignacio Caraballo, president of the Federation of Retail Merchants (Fenacodep) told El Caribe. Beginning on 1 January 2009, the 12% deduction that the Customs Department (DGA) has allowed to importers of powdered milk will be rescinded. DGA instructed its inspectors to now charge 20% tariff on imported milk. El Caribe speculates that local dairy producers could be behind the decision. <\/p>\n<p> Caraballo said that according to his reports, a bag of powdered milk that can be purchased for US$125 at an RD$35.50 exchange rate, and, at 8%, it pays RD$355 pesos in taxes, but the decision by Customs will increase this to RD$887, a difference of RD$532 pesos. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Powdered milk prices could go up in January, Juan Ignacio Caraballo, president of the Federation of Retail Merchants (Fenacodep) told El Caribe. Beginning on 1 January 2009, the 12% deduction that the Customs Department (DGA) has allowed to importers of powdered milk will be rescinded. DGA instructed its inspectors to now charge 20% tariff on &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2008\/12\/17\/milk-prices-to-increase\/\" 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":[227,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21456"}],"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=21456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}