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Garcia Duque says
private sector
to blamefor dollar delay
The private sector 1tself,
to criticism byEdgardRomero
Nava, actmg president of the
(private sector chambers)
send the1r information and
industrial and trade cham- revisions by next week,
bers when the1r preferential, Garc1aDuque sa1d.
the

not the government, should
be blamed for the delay in the
granting of preferential
dollars for 1988, Acting Fi-
nance Minister Jorge Garcia
Duque said Thursday.
National Trade and Services
Council (Consecomercio), be-
cause the information re-
quested by the Finance Min-
istry was not received by the
deadline set.
they did not do it by the date
announced and this is why we
could not comply," he said.
Garcia Duque said the De-
velopment Ministry met in
December with repre-
dollar budget request were
revised. The list of amounts granted
to each importer will be pub-
Sorne 11,000 requests for lished next week in the na-
preferential dollars were reg- tional press, Garcia Duque
istered and the government ; said.