Non Tariff Barriers for Nicaraguan Cheese in El Salvador

Complaints are being made over the sampling process used to verify product quality which is causing delays, forcing goods to be kept at the border for up to 15 days.

Friday, July 22, 2016

The union of the dairy sector in Nicaragua says that the waiting time for the results of the quality test is not supposed to be more than 8 days, but when samples are sent which were taken from El Amatillo to San Salvador, the process is much longer.

See: "No date for Resumption of Nicaragua - Costa Rica Dairy Trade"

"... According to those affected by this 'non-tariff obstacle', in addition to the delay of up to 15 days in the delivery of the product there is also the up to ten thousand dollar cost of exporting each container in which 25,000 kilos (550 hundredweight) of cheese is transported.

The president of the Nicaraguan Chamber of the Milk Sector (CANISLAC), Willmer Fernandez, claimed that   "..."Letters have been sent to all entities in the Department of Production, Consumption and Trade with a copy to the Presidency and attached to this is a list of the array of barriers to trade, but so far no response has been received.'"

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