Losses in Free Zones Due to Customs Strike

Salvadoran business associations are calling for dialogue and rapid lifting of the strike in order to avoid generating further losses and a possible 'stagnation of exports'.

Thursday, June 28, 2012

The vice president of the Miramar zone, Ricardo Avila, reported that none of customs offices in the free zones are operating.

"'We hope the situation will be resolved soon, not going on for longer than one or two days because, otherwise, the stakes are very high in terms of lost contracts for export companies, seeing as the free zones are the country's leading exporters' he said, and warned that the risk is of ' a cessation of exports, which means cancelled contracts and what nobody wants, job losses", reports Laprensagrafica.com.

The Salvadoran Association of Industries (ASI) and the Chamber of the Textile, Clothing and Free Zones (CAMTEX), is calling for a rapid solution to the problem.

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