{"id":65712,"date":"2011-02-11T20:04:08","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T16:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=65712"},"modified":"2011-02-12T00:35:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T20:35:58","slug":"armenian-merchants-demands-partially-met-but-protests-will-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/02\/11\/armenian-merchants-demands-partially-met-but-protests-will-continue.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Merchants&#8217; Demands Partially Met, But Protests will Continue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The demands of retailers importing goods from Turkey and other countries have been partially met: the customs fee per 1 kg of goods which was recently raised to $8 has now become $6, and there are talks to lower that $6 to $4 (the original customs fee per 1 kg of imported goods).<\/p>\n<p>Recall, MPs Larisa Alaverdyan and Anahit Bakhshyan from the Heritage Party, as well as Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) MP Artsvik Minasyan, were working on this issue this week.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Epress.am, merchant Gevorg Saroyan said their issue, &#8220;with all the relevant documents, is under the control of the parliamentarians.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The deputies have also gotten in touch with intermediary [cargo shipping] companies, which have said the increase in fees was tied to Turkey. Now the deputies are trying to find out exactly what is connected with Turkey,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>In order to ship goods into Armenia from Turkey, Syria and other countries, merchants turn to cargo shipping companies, which, in fact, increased the tariff.<\/p>\n<p>According to Saroyan, in any case, they plan to continue their demonstrations, though they haven&#8217;t yet made a clear decision on future action.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, they had met with the transport and communication minister; however, he had said that cargo shipping companies are private entities and state control doesn&#8217;t exist in this matter.<\/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>The demands of retailers importing goods from Turkey and other countries have been partially met: the customs fee per 1 kg of goods which was recently raised to&#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":65579,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[20645,21716,21715,12372],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65712"}],"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=65712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}