{"id":224171,"date":"2024-10-02T08:15:50","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T12:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=224171"},"modified":"2024-10-02T09:40:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T13:40:38","slug":"as-if-haiti-didnt-have-enough-problems-government-orders-new-labelling-for-food-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/10\/02\/as-if-haiti-didnt-have-enough-problems-government-orders-new-labelling-for-food-imports\/","title":{"rendered":"As if Haiti didn\u2019t have enough problems; government orders new labelling for food imports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Haiti-exige-etiquetado-en-creole-mercancia-Diario-Libre-1024x575.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-224230\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Haiti-exige-etiquetado-en-creole-mercancia-Diario-Libre-1024x575.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Haiti-exige-etiquetado-en-creole-mercancia-Diario-Libre-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Haiti-exige-etiquetado-en-creole-mercancia-Diario-Libre-768x431.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Haiti-exige-etiquetado-en-creole-mercancia-Diario-Libre.png 1212w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Haiti is implementing stricter product labeling regulations, affecting trade. While the measure will have the most impact on the Dominican Republic, it supposedly also applies to imports from the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tuesday, 1 October 2024 was allowed for a grace period for all products. Yet starting Wednesday, 2 October, all goods entering Haiti must possess a sanitary registration certificate, say the Haitian government officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lesly Theogene, director of Commerce and Industry for the Northeast of Haiti, confirmed to Diario Libre that these new regulations apply to all nations exporting products to Haiti, including the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dominican merchants operating in the border town of Dajab\u00f3n expressed their frustration with the sudden imposition of these regulations, labeling them as a form of Haitian blackmail. One merchant argued that Haiti is already facing numerous challenges and that these new rules only exacerbate the situation for the most vulnerable populations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new regulations mandate that product labels must include the following information in French or Creole:<br>\u2022 Product name<br>\u2022 List of ingredients<br>\u2022 Net weight<br>\u2022 Manufacturing and expiration dates<br>\u2022 Instructions for use and storage<br>\u2022 Country of origin<br>\u2022 Lot number<br>\u2022 Manufacturer, packer, or distributor information<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dominican businesses operating along the border have been scrambling to comply with the new regulations. Mario Pujols, Vice President of the Association of Industries of the Dominican Republic (AIRD), has described the implementation of these rules as &#8220;surprising&#8221; and &#8220;informal.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Noel Fernandez, president of the Dajab\u00f3n Binational Market Association, expressed concern about the short timeframe given to businesses to comply with the new regulations. He stated that efforts are underway to assist merchants in obtaining the necessary sanitary registration certificates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/actualidad\/nacional\/2024\/10\/01\/haiti-retiro-de-productos-por-etiquetado-es-para-todos-los-paises\/2866511\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2 October 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haiti is implementing stricter product labeling regulations, affecting trade. While the measure will have the most impact on the Dominican Republic, it supposedly also applies to imports from the United States. Tuesday, 1 October 2024 was allowed for a grace period for all products. Yet starting Wednesday, 2 October, all goods entering Haiti must possess &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/10\/02\/as-if-haiti-didnt-have-enough-problems-government-orders-new-labelling-for-food-imports\/\" 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":[330,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224171"}],"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=224171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224231,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224171\/revisions\/224231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}