Costa Rica: Industry Opposes China FTA

The Chamber of Industries reduced from 28% to 25% the number of tariff lines to exclude from the free trade agreement.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

6.600 tariff lines are included in the Free Trade Agreement negotiation between Costa Rica and China. The Costa Rican Chamber of Industries had initially requested excluding 28% of them, but has now lowered its request to 25%.

"What we've done is to sharper our pencils, as we are willing to cooperate with the negotiating team, specially for some lines which include a product and its parts. This does not mean that the chamber has altered its opposition to the negotiation scheme of this FTA", said Juan María González, president of the Chamber, according to Nacion.com.

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