Santo Domingo.- Customs director Rafael Camilo yesterday said the 50% reduction on import fees for poultry and of pig farmers seeks to protect those sectors and cause lower prices of important staples for the Dominican population.

“We’ve applied a 50% reduction in tariff payments on imports of raw material and machinery used to produce chicken and port, as well as eggs, as a way to reduce production costs and maintain the local market prices on those mass consumption items," he said.

Camilo, speaking Monday in a gathering of Cibao region poultry and pork farmers in the town Licey, Santiago, said with the measure, the Government aims to protect not just producers, but also the food production for the population. “We have reached an agreement through the route of the value, to help in the payment of the import and other taxes, for which we are taking this administrative measure."