{"id":8645,"date":"2005-01-06T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2005-01-06T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/us-senator-on-repealing-of-tax\/"},"modified":"2005-01-06T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2005-01-06T01:43:56","slug":"us-senator-on-repealing-of-tax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2005\/01\/06\/us-senator-on-repealing-of-tax\/","title":{"rendered":"US Senator on repealing of tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The office of Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, chairman of the US Senate Committee on Finance, issued today a statement welcoming reports that President Leonel Fernandez has signed into law legislation that repeals the DR&#8217;s 25% tax on soft drinks containing high fructose corn syrup. &#8220;With the repeal of this discriminatory tax, the DR has demonstrated that it&#8217;s willing to take measures necessary to join the US in a comprehensive free trade agreement,&#8221; Grassley said. &#8220;I now look forward to moving through the Senate the Central American Free Trade Agreement with the inclusion of the Dominican Republic.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The office of Iowa Senator Chuck Grassley, chairman of the US Senate Committee on Finance, issued today a statement welcoming reports that President Leonel Fernandez has signed into law legislation that repeals the DR&#8217;s 25% tax on soft drinks containing high fructose corn syrup. &#8220;With the repeal of this discriminatory tax, the DR has demonstrated &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2005\/01\/06\/us-senator-on-repealing-of-tax\/\" 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":[224,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645"}],"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=8645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}