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On 24 June in Venezuela a new regime of harbour taxes will enter a vigor
Worry of the economic operators for increases that medium will pile between 250% and 300%
June 10, 2011
Next the 24 june in the Venezuelan ports will take effect the new regime of harbour taxes defined with decree number 8,236 of the presidency of the Republic published on the "Gazette of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela 25th May".
According to Elsa Gutiérrez Graffe, president of Bolipuertos (Bolivariana de Puertos), the governmental agency that it supervises to the harbour activities from 2009 when the ports of Venezuela are nationalized, "it was necessary to have of a law that ordered slight knowledge which services and taxes that, before the process of reversal and recovery arranged from the executive, were collected according to rates established from every private terminalista violating the humanitarian principles and moral ethics". Elsa Gutiérrez Graffe has said that Bolipuertos will attend on to apply the new law that will bring benefits to the national economy.
Anything but warning the representatives of the Venezuelan economic operators, second which the new law will determine an unacceptable increase of the amount of the harbour taxes that, for the field of the goods several, will go around between 250% and 300% and will affect directly and heavy the structure of international the marine transport costs. The Chamber of Commerce of Puerto Cabello has emphasized that the new harbour taxes with the effect of the devaluation will determine a prosecuzione of the inflationary spiral.
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Next the 24 june in the Venezuelan ports will take effect the new regime of harbour taxes defined with decree number 8,236 of the presidency of the Republic published on the "Gazette of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela 25th May".
- Via Raffaele Paolucci 17r/19r - 16129 Genoa - ITALY
