{"id":224579,"date":"2024-10-09T08:32:37","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T12:32:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=224579"},"modified":"2024-10-09T09:20:09","modified_gmt":"2024-10-09T13:20:09","slug":"soft-drinks-protest-new-taxes-on-sugared-drinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/10\/09\/soft-drinks-protest-new-taxes-on-sugared-drinks\/","title":{"rendered":"Soft drinks protest new taxes on sugared drinks"},"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\/Refrescos-Diario-Libre-1024x567.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-224612\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Refrescos-Diario-Libre-1024x567.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Refrescos-Diario-Libre-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Refrescos-Diario-Libre-768x426.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Refrescos-Diario-Libre-1536x851.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Refrescos-Diario-Libre.png 1776w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The Association of Non-Alcoholic Beverages Industries (Asibenas) protests the announcement they will be taxed. The Asosiben argues that they make up a good percentage of the sales of around 80,000 colmados all around the country. They are concerned the new tax would increase product prices 25 to 50%, reducing sales, as reported in Diario Libre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the second bad news for the non-alcoholic sugared-beverages industry. Earlier in the year, the government banned the sale of soft drinks and sugary drinks in school cafeterias, attending to health and nutrition recommendations from the FAO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/economia\/consumo\/2024\/10\/08\/asibenas-habla-sobre-reforma-fiscal\/2874399\">Diario Libre <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>9 October 2024<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Association of Non-Alcoholic Beverages Industries (Asibenas) protests the announcement they will be taxed. The Asosiben argues that they make up a good percentage of the sales of around 80,000 colmados all around the country. They are concerned the new tax would increase product prices 25 to 50%, reducing sales, as reported in Diario Libre. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2024\/10\/09\/soft-drinks-protest-new-taxes-on-sugared-drinks\/\" 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\/224579"}],"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=224579"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224613,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224579\/revisions\/224613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}