TPL Needed for Central American Textile Companies

Nicaraguan businessmen have proposed that Central America as a whole operates a preferential tariff treatment in the US for imports of textiles in the region.

Friday, November 21, 2014

After trying to negotiate, through several formats, tariff preference levels (TPL), so far unsuccessfully, textile entrepreneurs are now appealing to the union of the region to address the issue with the US once again.

The head of the Superior Council of Private Enterprise of Nicaragua, Jose Adan Aguerri told Eleconomista.net that "... This is an interconnected issue for the six countries of the region and that is the approach we will make with the Consultative Committee of the Central American Integration System and to the Federation of Private Entities of Central America. "

"... The TPL's are part of the Free Trade Agreement between the Dominican Republic, Central America and the US (DR-CAFTA), and only benefit Nicaragua. "

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