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Industry Toughens Posture on China FTA

The Costa Rican Chamber of Industries is demanding to know the list of products for which China wants tariff reductions.

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

This list includes plastic, metal mechanics, graphics and tires. These products would be directly affected by Chinese imports.

Nacion.com reports that "Juan María González, president of the Chamber, assured that the list is a requisite for starting conversations with Comex".

Source: Nacion.com

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New Obstacles for Costa Rica - China FTA

September 2009

Disagreement arose among industrialists and Comex, over a request for excluding a number of products which are not produced in the country and enjoy zero tariff.

The goods being requested for exclusion are ambulant circuses, circus tents, cable cars, helicopters, vehicles, bridges and cattle feeding bottles.

Costa Rica Industrials Oppose FTA with China

June 2009

Denouncing sanitary risks and a lack of quality control in Chinese production, they are asking for the adoption of a Partial Agreement Accord and not a FTA.

Executives from diverse business chambers exchanged strong words in the discussion on this issue. In a press conference where the presidents of various industry chambers were present, including from the Cámara de Industrias de Costa Rica (CICR), Cámara Costarricense de la Industria Alimentaria (CACIA), Asociación Costarricense de la Industria Plástica, Asociación de la Metalurgia, and Asociación de la Industria Gráfica, “they denounced that the Department of Foreign Trade (Comex) did not address their requests or concerns despite that they have made their concerns known on various occasions."

China Demands Better FTA Offer

June 2009

Costa Rica is offering to free a 70% of all tariffs while China demands an offer similar to theirs, which is 95%.

The new offer from Costa Rica does not include the most sensitive products for China. Likewise, the proposal from the Asian country does not include the products of greatest interest to Costa Rica, like sugar, meats, and coffee. However, China does offer an opening of 94.5% of the tariff lines.

Costa Rican Businesses Prepare for the Chinese Market

February 2009

Various economic sectors of Costa Rica are working to obtain preferential consideration in the Free Trade Agreement with China.

As an example, Florida Ice & Farm, which is already exporting its Imperial beer to the Asian country free of tariffs, wants that this preference to be consolidated into the Free Trade Agreement.