{"id":40041,"date":"2001-05-08T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2001-05-08T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/contraband-affects-whisky-importers\/"},"modified":"2001-05-08T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2001-05-08T01:43:56","slug":"contraband-affects-whisky-importers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/05\/08\/contraband-affects-whisky-importers\/","title":{"rendered":"Contraband affects whisky importers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Association of Producers of Foreign Spirits (Aprobex) announced a 11% reduction on their prices to fight contraband that surged after the government increases taxes on imported spirits to 172% in January. The association said that a bottle of Scotch that was selling for RD$250 will now retail for RD$225. The association explained their sales had dropped 50% after the implementation of the new tax.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Association of Producers of Foreign Spirits (Aprobex) announced a 11% reduction on their prices to fight contraband that surged after the government increases taxes on imported spirits to 172% in January. The association said that a bottle of Scotch that was selling for RD$250 will now retail for RD$225. The association explained their sales &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2001\/05\/08\/contraband-affects-whisky-importers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40041"}],"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=40041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}