Honduras' customs system has not been updated with the new tariffs for European products, in force since 1 August.
A week ago the Agreement entered into force and Honduran importers have not yet received the corresponding tariff benefits.
"The Automated System for Customs Revenue (known as SARA by its initials in Spanish) is the system where people get information on the taxes that have to be paid based on the treaty and immediately after it enters into force it has to be ready, but the Revenue Office has not yet managed to input, so to speak, all the tax breaks included in this agreement," said Eduardo Ramos, advisor to the Chamber of Commerce and Industries of Cortes.
Defaulters of the Honduran Tax system have been blocked from gaining access to the National Tax Registry (RTN in Spanish) and the Automated System for Customs Revenue in Honduras (SARAH in Spanish).
An article in Laribuna.hn reports that "The Executive of the Revenue Department (DEI in Spanish) this week launched the blocking of the National Tax Registry (RTN) to a hundred small, medium and large taxpayers who are tax defaulters, so that they can not carry out any commercial operations whatsoever. "