Customs Duties

The state will provide direct support to the dairy sector for the first time to lower prices for goat and sheep cheeses. The agreement between the Ministry of Finance and farmers includes 24 million NIS in annual subsidies.

Data from the Arlozorov-Yesodot Institute, a research body within the Histadrut, show that the reduction of customs duties on tuna was successful and lowered prices. However, this did not prevent it from publishing an opposite conclusion in the competing newspaper Calcalist. This is how the method of analytical bodies that try to fight opening the market to competition works - even when the...