President Porfirio Lobo has demanded that his cabinet prepare a new regulatory framework for grain imports in the future, LaPrensa.hn reported.
The president claimed that next week they will submit "a plan that provides protection and transparency to the process of authorization for the import of grain," in order to avoid misunderstandings, the website said.
Lobo instructed the Ministers of Agriculture and Livestock, Jacobo Regalado, and of Industry and Commerce, Francisco Zelaya, and the negotiator of free trade, Melvin Redondo,"to establish a transparent procedure for the process."
The presidential announcement follows a controversy sparked by the arrival of a foreign ship with 14,300 tons of rice at Puerto Cortes, which, as Lobo decreed, will have to pay taxes or return to their place of origin.
Source: laprensahn.com
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