In order to deal with the emergency arising from the covid-19 outbreak, as of March 18 the Costa Rican government controls the export or re-export of medical implements.
The National Customs Service formulated the directive based on the National Emergency Declaration of the Presidency of the Republic, which, according to Executive Decree No. 42227-MP-S, grants the Public Administration the power to apply extraordinary emergency measures, reported the Ministry of Finance.
Costa Rican authorities announced they plan to implement a Non-Intrusive Inspection System for the inspection of containers, which will be held on September 30 with companies interested in developing it.
This system will consist of a remote inspection center (CIR), scanners, cameras reading plates and container numbers, scales, system of anticipated risk and radio frequency antennas (RFID), informed the Ministry of Finance in a statement.From the Ministry of Finance statement:
The National Customs Service began with the implementation of 23,500 radio frequency devices through electronic tags for the identification and control of national containers.
The electronic tags (TAG) will be installed on the windshield of the vehicle, so that radio waves will transmit data from the transport unit to a computer program installed on a platform of the Secretariat of Central American Economic Integration (SIECA), informed the Ministry of Finance.
The Executive Port Commission of El Salvador tenders the supply, installation, configuration and integration of the electronic access control system of the Port of Acajutla.
El Salvador Government Purchase LP-27/2019:
"The required system must be made up of 2 parts (hardware and software), as well as being integrated into the data network of the Port of Acajutla and the current access control system used at CEPA Central.
A bill will be presented to the Congress of the Republic of Guatemala to require public accountants, auditors, lawyers and notaries to report their transactions.
The bill seeking to broaden the scope of regulated persons’ subject to money laundering control, which will be presented by the Superintendence of Banks (SIB), is aimed primarily at professionals as individuals, but will also include real estate companies, vehicle agencies and casinos.
From May 2019, foreign customers will have to declare to local system banks that their funds meet their country's tax requirements.
The Superintendence of Banks of Panama (SBP) approved Agreement 02-2019, which implements the recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force, which consists of expanding the required due diligence measures of banks with their customers.
In El Salvador, importers of used vehicles must subject the units to controls in order to determine whether they have been reported stolen in other countries.
The new border security mechanism came into effect on April 10, Salvadoran authorities said.
Arguing that the objective is to ensure that used cars into Costa Rica are in optimal condition, the new Customs authorities are tightening controls on imported units.
Importers of used vehicles in Costa Rica report that since the new General Director of Customs took office in January this year, is promoting a new guideline that generates uncertainty in the sector.
An activity that generates nearly $1 billion a year in Costa Rica in exports is being seriously threatened by the infiltration of drug traffickers, who are taking advantage of loopholes left open by the government because it does not have an adequate system for checking containers and registering exporters.
The most recent seizure of 45 kilos of drugs that arrived in the United States in the corrugated bottom of 20 cardboard boxes of pineapples from San Carlos has once again set alarm bells ringing in the export sector, which has ceaselessly demanded that authorities to go back to the "in situ" review system of cargo, which used to be carried out before and stopped during the Solís administration.
To calm the spirits of local producers, the Panamanian government has announced the beginning of an audit of the process to import agrifood products, in order to identify companies that are bringing goods in without meeting any of the requirements.
A few days after producers in the country held demonstrations against the allegedly excessive entry of products such as dairy and meat, the government decided to form, together with representatives from the agricultural sector, a discussion table to solve some of the problems.However, this negotiation was abandoned by representatives of the unions.
In Honduras, a tender is being launched for the construction, supply, installation and commissioning of 38 automatic hydroclimatological stations.
Honduras Government Purchase PRRCH-58-LPI-O-:
"Construction, supply, installation and commissioning of 38 automatic hydroclimatological stations for the optimization of the Monitoring Network of the Hydrological Basins of the Hydroelectric Power Plants Francisco Morazán and Cañaveral - Río Lindo.
Salvadoran bankers warn that the reform of the Bank Law proposed by the government would reduce controls on money laundering, since banks would only be able to close accounts with a previously aquired official resolution.
The president of the Salvadoran Banking Association (Abansa), Raul Cardenal, stressed that "... the reform project aims to ensure banks have no power to close bank accounts, without just cause and without a prior judicial or administrative resolution issued by the General Prosecutor's Office of the Republic."
The operator of Santo Tomás port in Guatemala plans to tender next year the installation of electronic customs stamps for containers at the port terminal.
The authorities at Empresa Portuaria Santo Tomás de Castilla also plan to acquire 300 cameras for a CCTV service.The purpose of these purchases is to improve controls and security on the premises.
The tax burden grew from 13.4% in 2013 to 14% in 2016, both due to the delayed effect of the tax reforms in Honduras and Nicaragua, as well as better management on the part of tax entities in Guatemala and Panama.
From the Regional Economic Report (IER) 2016-2017: Opportunities and challenges for Central America, by the SIECA:
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