The Senate of the Republic approved in first reading the bill ordinary setting zero rate to 67 products of the basic basket provisionally, which has already been sanctioned in two corresponding readings in the Chamber of Deputies.
The piece from the Executive Power received the favorable vote of 20 of the 28 senators present and would only be at the mercy of a second reading approval in the Upper House so that it passes to the Executive Power for its subsequent observation or promulgation.
The bill gravel with zero rate the customs tariff on certain goods that affect the cost of food that constitutes a basic component for feeding the Dominican family.
The products that would enter with zero rate
The list of 67 classified goods is made up of beef carcasses or half carcasses, fresh or chilled, in cuts or chunks, boneless or boneless and frozen.
Also, pork; in carcasses or half carcasses, fresh or chilled, legs, shoulders and their pieces without bone and other frozen parts.
Chicken meat without cutting up, fresh, chilled or frozen. Short and long thighs (legs) of chicken, whether or not joined, fresh or chilled; minced or ground chicken meat, breast, thigh, wings and other frozen parts.
Likewise, powdered milk, granules or other solid forms, without additional sugar or sweetener, will have a 0% import tariff rate. References are established to net contents less than or equal to 2.5 kilograms or fats less than or greater than 1.5 percent by weight.
Butter, margarine, except liquid margarine, garlic, peas, black, red, white beans, points, turns and jacomelos, lentils, broad beans, pigeon peas, and peas are included in the bill.
Likewise, wheat and corn flour, soybean, peanut, sunflower and refined corn oils. Uncooked, stuffed, or otherwise prepared pasta that does not contain eggs, cooked or otherwise prepared pasta, sobao, water, wholemeal, baguette-type, and mold breads, even frozen, and other breads, complement the list of zero percent import tariffs. Other products are peas, red, black and white beans, and other shelled or uncanned beans, as well as canned sweet corn and pigeon peas.
