Gregory Beltran reports for La Prensa: A STUDY OF TEN YEARS AGO IS NOT UPDATED CONTRABAND REPRESENTS 45% OF IMPORTS A study conducted between 2004 and 2005 showed that smuggling represented 45 percent of legal imports, which at the time reached approximately $2,500 million dollars, representing an illegal income of about 800-1,000 million dollars. The…
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Banana producers are working on new markets in border cities with Brazil
Los Tiempos reports: PENDING A STUDY TO DETERMINE IF THE BOLIVIAN BANANA IS ELIGIBLE Banana producers are working on new markets in border cities with Brazil For over a month ago a private consultant manages the opening of new markets in four to five border cities in Brazil on behalf of the Union of Banana…
Guabirá won the triple seal of social responsibility
Wendy Pinto reports for Pagina Siete: INTENDED TO ACHIEVE AN INTERNATIONAL CERTIFICATION Guabirá won the triple seal of social responsibility The triple seal ensures that the product of the sugar company is free from child labor, discrimination and forced labor. The Bolivian Institute for Standards and Quality (Ibnorca), in coordination with the Bolivian Institute of…
25% price fall of Santa Cruz soybeans, ton is priced at $340
El Diario reports: International prices on six basic food are down: 25% price fall of Santa Cruz soybeans, ton is priced at $340 The price of soybeans presented a downward trend during the last month as a result of a global oversupply and reduced Chinese demand for the oilseed. According to a cruceño producer, the…
Bolivia’s food security in peril; flour imports continue to increase!
Bolivia loses control of our food security, our producers are constrained with quotas, there is little if any protection for the investor, too many road/street blockades and rampaging anarchy. Those are a result of the incompetence of current ochlocracy in government. Bolivia needs to produce more wheat, needs to decrease the amount of imports and…
The IBCE reflects Bolivia’s marginal trade with the ALBA
El Deber reports: The IBCE reflects a marginal trade with the ALBA The general manager of the Bolivian Institute of Foreign Trade (IBCE), Gary Rodriguez said, with data from INE, that the trade relationship with countries of Bolivia’s ideological affinity, as the group of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA) is…
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