Deputies ready to ensure Dominican’s entry into Free Trade

http://www.dominicantoday.com 20/10/06

SANTO DOMINGO. – Chamber of Deputies president Julio Cesar Valentin announced yesterday that that legislative organism will prioritize the bills that are required for the Free Trade Agreement to take effect, and only await the Executive Branch to introduce those initiatives to be debated next week.

Among those bills are modifications to the laws on Customs, Copyright, and Government Purchasing and Hiring.

The president of the deputies said that if those bills are introduced in the National Congress Monday, as announced by the Industry and Commerce minister Francisco Javier Garcia, they will be debated to quickly approve them.

Valentin added that the implementation of the DR-CAFTA trade deal will not be postponed because of the legislators.

Garcia had announced that next Monday will introduce in Congress the bills which are pending approval, and which are necessary to formally implement the DR-CAFTA.

To enter the DR-CAFTA on January 1, 2007, the Dominican Republic had to modify the Copyright Law, as far as compliance and observance of the legislation.