Haiti moves to remove restrictions on imports products from the Dominican Republic

Move signals a thaw in relations between both countries.

Haiti has agreed to lift the restrictions on overland imports of several products from the neighboring Dominican Republic in the next few days.

According to Haiti’s Foreign Affairs Minister Pierrot Delienne, the restrictions will be lifted as long as the corresponding customs fees are paid.
Delienne also said the Haitian government will provide over 100,000 Haitians with the official documents needed to in order to qualify for the Dominican Republic’s foreigner regularization plan.

The decision was made during a meeting earlier this week with Dominican Foreign Relations Minister Miguel Vargas in Port-au-Prince.

Delienne also responded positively to his counterpart’s request to resume meetings by the Mixed Bilateral Commission, for which he said a common agenda would be drawn up, as well as to Vargas’s proposal for a trade agreement between the 2 countries.

In addition, Vargas proposed a treaty that would boost bilateral trade flows “without blockages and without objections” beyond the international trade rules. -(CMC)