SARAJEVO, Feb 7 (Hina) - The Bosnian Council of Ministers will instruct the governments of the country's two entities to increase excise duties for high tariff goods, which will directly endanger the import of cigarettes, alcoholic
and soft drinks from Croatia, the Sarajevo daily Oslobodjenje says on Thursday. The newspaper says Foreign Trade Minister Azra Hadziahmetovic has confirmed this without saying when such measures might go into force. The measures are strictly the result of the Croatian government's conduct in a recent dispute over oil transit, and their passing depends on official Zagreb's answer to Bosnia and Herzegovina's demands for the opening of additional corridors for the transport of oil, says the newspaper. The official explanation for the measures would state that excise duties in Bosnia are adjusted to the tax rates Croatia applies to some Bosnian
SARAJEVO, Feb 7 (Hina) - The Bosnian Council of Ministers will
instruct the governments of the country's two entities to increase
excise duties for high tariff goods, which will directly endanger
the import of cigarettes, alcoholic and soft drinks from Croatia,
the Sarajevo daily Oslobodjenje says on Thursday.
The newspaper says Foreign Trade Minister Azra Hadziahmetovic has
confirmed this without saying when such measures might go into
force.
The measures are strictly the result of the Croatian government's
conduct in a recent dispute over oil transit, and their passing
depends on official Zagreb's answer to Bosnia and Herzegovina's
demands for the opening of additional corridors for the transport
of oil, says the newspaper.
The official explanation for the measures would state that excise
duties in Bosnia are adjusted to the tax rates Croatia applies to
some Bosnian products, for example cigarettes.
The introduction of a strict control of the quality of imported
fuel, oil produced in Croatia would virtually no longer be imported
in Bosnia as it is believed to contain an excessive concentration of
lead and sulphur.
Last year oil and cigarettes accounted for 30 percent of Bosnia's
import from Croatia.
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