LatinNews Daily Report - 17 January 2014

ECONOMY | Legislature suspends controversial levies. On 16 January El Salvador’s unicameral legislature suspended for 180 days the US$18 levy per vehicle imposed at El Salvador’s border points, which had taken effect on 6 January. The legislature ratified a decree issued by President Mauricio Funes the previous day. The levy, which the Funes government maintains is necessary to cover the cost of a new X-ray system put in place to crack down on the movement of illicit goods and contraband, had led to a major row with El Salvador’s neighbours with some 1,200 Central American truckers on strike over the issue.

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