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Colombia Tariff Cuts To help Curb Inflation

COLOMBIA
  • A reminder that Colombia Finance Minister Jose Restrepo Spoke yesterday in a BTV Interview:
    • Colombia's fiscal figures are better than forecast
    • Colombia to implement tariff cuts starting next week
    • Colombia to cut tariffs on almost 200 items (BBG)
  • Colombia will reduce tariffs on almost 200 items likely starting next week as part of efforts to help curb the fastest inflation since 2016, according to one of the nation’s top economic policy makers.
    • Those import tariff cuts will be mostly in the agriculture sector, Finance Minister Jose Manuel Restrepo said in a Bloomberg Television interview on Wednesday.

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