translated from Spanish: Panama applies “reciprocity” to Costa Rica and ends border blockade

Panama/San Jose.- The main border between Panama and Costa Rica was opened on Tuesday, following a truck blockade of more than a week in rejection of sanitary measures restricting cargo transit through the neighboring country, after the Panamanian authorities applied “reciprocity”. The Panama Customs Authority issued two temporary “reciprocity” resolutions applicable to Costa Rican carriers, published on Tuesday in the official gazette, which state that they must stop loading at 17 authorized tax deposits, reach them by 4 routes and be in the country a maximum of 72 hours.

“An agreement was reached with the Panamanian government, not the Government of Costa Rica, which maintains its position,” the president of Panama’s National Cargo Transport Chamber, Andrés Tito Muñoz, told EFE, and reported that the border of Paso Canoas was unlocked this tarde.SE OPEN THE FRONTERA DE PASO CANOASThe border post of Paso Canoas was unlocked “by Panamanian carriers ” after a global agreement that we have reached the Governments of Panama and Costa Rica, and the private sectors that were consulted for this purpose,” said costa Rican Foreign Trade Minister Dyalá Jiménez.According to the minister, the Panama Customs authorities established legislation that establishes “a plan very similar to that which (governments) had agreed (last week) from a controlled tax route to deposits specific prosecutors , with a certain period” of the driver’s stay in the country.” We welcome this fact, we will be following the development of the gradual entry through border posts to gradually decongest the tracks and test this plan that is unprecedented and that we hope will work. If the plan must have adjustments, we will work to ensure that there is health protection and commercial flow in balance,” he concluded. TEMPORARY RECIPROCITYThe conflict in Paso Canoas began after 18 May Costa Rica restricted the entry into its territory of foreign freight carriers, after detecting 50 cases of COVID-19 in these drivers in just two weeks, most on the border with Nicaragua, a country that has been internationally criticized for the few prevention measures it has promoted during the pandemic. The ethical measures, which restrict the time of stay to 72 hours, require the leaving of cargo in the hands of ethical drivers, and subject to strong surveillance measures the movement of foreign truckers in the country, has been rejected not only by Panamanian truckers, who blocked the border, but also by guilds of carriers throughout the isthmus. Resolution 136 of the Panamanian National Customs Authority “by which temporary reciprocity measures are issued”, limits to a maximum of 72 hours the stay of Costa Rican truckers, who must enter with cargo and leave it in tax warehouses, and leave empty.” The guabito-Sixaola border crossing for the international transport of land cargo registered in the Republic of Costa Rica, for the marketing of bananas and bananas exclusively, says the guabito-Sixaola border crossing for the international transport of land cargo registered in the Republic of Costa Rica, for the marketing of bananas and bananas exclusively”, says Customs Resolution 137, which establishes routes and warehouses authorized exclusively to unload goods by Costa Rican cargo carriers. The president of Panama’s National Cargo Transport Chamber told EFE that “the organized transport of Central America, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala, will ask their representatives the same with Costa Rica, an equal measure” of reciprocity, which has already been implemented since last Saturday Honduras.The Central American authorities have been discussing from Monday a regional biosecurity protocol for the freight transport sector with which they aspire to resolve the conflict, which keeps more than 1,000 truckers stranded in Nicaragua stranded. You may also be interested:Arrest man who threatened to death by net to the president of PanamaPanamá asks Trump respirators and test as support in anti-COVID-19Panamá experiments with convalescent plasma to treat COVID-19 sufferers



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