haiti has high port taxes according to reports

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According to credible reports PEOPLE DO PAY TAXES OR FEES AT THE PORTS OF HAITI FOR SHIPMENTS AND THEY ARE VERY HIGH IN COMPARISON To the other Caribbean countries.

This is a quote from the Associated Press: "Jean-Paul Michaud, a Canadian, said he sailed to the capital of Port-au-Prince late last year carrying 60 pounds of donated clothing and medicine -- and that port authorities demanded $10,000 in "customs fees" -- code for a bribe to make the fees disappear."I'd have rather thrown the aid in the water," said Michaud.

The Canadian Embassy intervened and the fee was later waived.

Susie Scott Krabacher, a Colorado-based Mercy and Sharing Foundation has worked in Haiti for 14 years.

Krabacher's group says it has paid nearly $16,000 in fees in the first six weeks of 2008 alone, compared to $23,418 for all of 2007." **IF THERE ARE NO TAXES WHO IS GETTING ALL OF THIS MONEY?

Source Associated Press Click:
ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5j1vXfWoizz...
Same story on ABC News Click
abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory...

Claudy, April 3 2008, 3:02 AM

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