{"id":271654,"date":"2016-03-15T10:53:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T06:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=271654"},"modified":"2016-03-15T12:54:30","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T08:54:30","slug":"armenian-customs-reforms-harm-small-and-medium-sized-businesses-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/03\/15\/armenian-customs-reforms-harm-small-and-medium-sized-businesses-press.html","title":{"rendered":"Customs Reforms in Armenia Harm Small and Medium-Sized Businesses: Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"line-height: 1.6em;\">Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper reports that following Hovhannes Hovsepyan&rsquo;s appointment as the head of Armenia&rsquo;s State Revenue Committee, so-called &ldquo;cargo&rdquo; operations have been discontinued resulting in a shortage of some imported goods.<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;So far it has only touched the wholesale market, but if this situation persists for another 20-30 days, [the issue] might move to retail. We&rsquo;re talking about household equipment, gadgets, and clothing.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;The thing is, cargo &ndash; for a certain fee and thanks to &lsquo;cooperation&rsquo; with the Customs Service &#8211; used to clear imports through customs based on their total weight, whereas now, the Service clears each of the goods individually and for sky-high duty rates. After such customs clearance, small and medium-sized businesses have no chance of competing with large and shady businesses. Therefore, small and medium-sized importers have temporarily discontinued their operations,&rdquo; the daily writes.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSo far it has only touched the wholesale market, but if this situation persists for another 20-30 days, [the issue] might move to retail. We\u2019re talking about household equipment, gadgets, and clothing&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":267599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[65942,64213,12918,64214,62800],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271654"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}