Oh Well..........., what's expected? By the time your product gets to the consumer, the product almost triples in Value. While the consumers income stays the same.

Good Work Lee-Flea!!!

from January to January last year 20% seems radical

Blame others? Again., Blame global economic crisis., yes, you can blame this , but only for certain percentage......

Why dong'e you blame the corruption internal?

lower the taxes and more items will come... even old fashion TV's cost alot in DR... Out of style cell phones are also high priced

Hmmmm Corruption must up by 20 % at customs ........

they bring used phones in from the states...... place NEW COVERS on them and sell them as NEW....
big money big profits....how do they do this?
they make payoffs at the airports.. i know this as FACT.
AND U KNOW WHO THEY ARE PAYING OFF DONT U?.
SO BE CAREFULL WHEN LOOKING TO BUY A NEW PHONE FOPR LOTS OF PESOS.... IT MAY NOT BE SO NEW. MAJOR OUTS ARE SELLING THESES PHONES., IN SANTO DOMINGO AND POP AND SANTIAGO.

all i can say is i tried to give the guy that checks your bags before you walk out the airport some cash (had 15 iphones with me ) he looked at me and said I DO NOT TAKE CASH i looked around to make sure i was in the DR and looked at him and said since when and all he said was I DO NOT TAKE CASH HAVE A NICE STAY i was like wow what is going on at POP when you can not even pay off a guy at the airport in DEC WHAT IS THIS WORLD COMING 2 i need to go to a new country LOL

i have been wondering about the connection between the first and last sentance ..I dare say it is good manners to give bad news when a wreath is being laid and good news when a flag is being raised .But can any one ever reconcile all the conflicting statistical information that is released from time to time ?? Last time it was customs revenue up and tax collections down except for the direct taxes on nearly all items which continues to rise as is hard for anyone but the small dealers on the street to work out a way around it

Its good news - people will be spending more on internally produced goods. I have noticed that the supply and purchase of good healthy locally produced vegetables is up and the number of people buying greed giant corn and like processed planet trashing imported food is down.
I'm glad if general Mills profit is down and no energy is spent on unnecessary freezing, canning and transporting lond distances.
No hoorah for the not so jolly Green Giant!
Lets have fresh spinach and other delights.
It will make the Dominican people good and strong!
Blut and his ilk are trying to stop good Dominicans from getting their local spinach by promoting fancy supermarkets and imports.
But like the good pirates of old there will always be heroes we hope.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHo91px5YTs&mode=related&search
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20% Is fairly good, considering the economic growth (DR) was 1% + overall this past year. so you add a 1% hike and deduct 20%, it's actually a 41% scam..interesting.

it actually might be that figueroa was caught and alot of the payoffs stopped.

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Let's think to produce more and more, goods and services, and let's export to the others Caribbean countries and Central America. Let us be the business huge motor of our economic zone. Let's increase jobs and industries.