Smotrych canceled the responsibility on milk imports to fight its scarcity – Muricas News

On Thursday, July 13, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich signed a decree on the abolition of duties on milk imports, which, in his opinion, will assist to resolve the scarcity downside as quickly as attainable.

The decree is momentary and will probably be legitimate for 3 months, it applies to all sorts of milk, together with goat and sheep.

In saying the abolition of the 40% responsibility, Smotrich famous that earlier than making a call, he thought-about a number of choices for combating the milk scarcity, and in addition spoke with farmers and the Dairy Council. He famous that within the subsequent three months, specialists may also examine the market from the standpoint of demand in an effort to make the mandatory corrections and guarantee common provides of milk and dairy merchandise at optimum costs.

The Ministry of Agriculture, which is liable for the dairy market, opposes the abolition of the responsibility, saying that the Ministry of Finance has not mentioned this problem with them.

In opposition to additionally the Council of Dairy Farms, which introduced that it intends to attraction to the Supreme Courtroom of Greater Training in reference to the violation by the state of the agreements reached earlier.

At current, a 40% blocking responsibility is ready for bottled milk, which makes its import economically unprofitable. The abolition of the responsibility by the Ministry of Finance won't have an effect on the receipts to the state treasury, since milk shouldn't be presently imported into Israel, this also needs to not negatively have an effect on farmers, as they'll proceed to provide milk in accordance with quotas.

Mikhail Shafranov, an financial observer for the positioning NEWSru.co.il, spoke intimately concerning the causes of the “milk disaster” in Israel two months in the past.