Grupo Lala, Pandora and The Estee Lauder Companies are three of the companies who have requested approval to start operations under the SEM regime in the first half of 2017.
Prensa.com reports that "...The other companies that operate under the Multinational Enterprises Regime (SEM by its initials in Spanish) are Hazama Ando Corporation from Japan (advice on general construction and civil engineering services); Mondo Ibérica, S.A. from Spain (sports center facilities, from artificial turf, seating systems, to pavements, etc.); Elbert Software, from Argentina (licensing, import and export of enterprise application software and IT security)."
The health authorities have announced that they have reached an agreement, but no dates or deadlines have been set to resume sales of the product between the two countries.
Theagreement announcedby the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock of Costa Rica and theInstitute for Protection and Agricultural in Nicaragua only mentions assessments to be made in plants belonging to the companies Dos Pinos and Grupo Lala, but does not mention dates on which they will be carried out or deadlines for the resumption of bilateral trade in milk.
The transaction, which was carried out in 2015, was not announced at the time in Costa Rica, where high production costs have prompted several companies to move their operations to Nicaragua.
In 2015 the Costa Rican dairy producer Dos Pinos bought the industrial plant La Completa for an undisclosed amount.Dos Pinos is a cooperative network made up of more than 2,000 associated producers and workers.
Health authorities in Costa Rica have confirmed that since May they have prevented the entry of products from two dairy plants belonging to the Mexican company Lala in Nicaragua.
After information was circulated about the alleged closure of the Nicaraguan market to dairy products from three companies in Costa Rica, the health authorities of this country have acknowledged that since May 2016 they have restricted the entry of Lala's dairy products , having detected".. . several examples of "non - compliance" in the production system of the two plants inspected. "
Lala Group intends to take advantage of the free transit of goods in Central America to produce and export milk from Nicaragua to the entire region.
The Mexican company Lala confirmed the positive performance of Nicaragua's economy, announcing its intention to turn the country into a production hub and to export dairy products to the rest of Central America.
The main dairy producers and exporters in the region are preparing for the beggining of operations in Nicaragua by the Mexican dairy plant Lala.
It is expected that by early 2015 the plant owned by the company Lala will start operating in Nicaragua, meaning that "... Competition for the Central American market over milk and its derivatives will be more intense. "