The paralysis of economic activities in the country due to the incidence of the Tropical Storm Melissa caused the dominican customs They will stop collecting around 800 million pesos every day.
This was reported by the customs director, Eduardo Sanz Lovatónwho revealed that there were days, during the passage of the remnants of the phenomenon through the territory, in which income from customs taxes only amounted to 200 million pesos.
“A day when you can normally have a fundraiser that is around billion pesosin the middle of that storm We had days when that collection was 200 million pesos,” he explained.
Decrease in commercial activities
However, Sanz Lovatón declared that a large part of what he stopped receiving by payment of liens It must be recovered with days of collection above the average.
“Operations (in the ports) were not paralyzed, they slowed down and evidently there was a decline in commercial activities those days, which is already beginning to recover and I hope that by the middle of next week everything will be normalized“, he stated.
- The official spoke before participating this Thursday in the opening of the XVIII National Congress of the Dominican chapter of the Business Alliance for Safe Commerce, which is developed under the motto “Towards a secure logistics hub“.
