US embassy cable - 04GUATEMALA2416

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DEMARCHE REQUEST: SCUTTLING THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC'S PROPOSED HFCS TAX

Identifier: 04GUATEMALA2416
Wikileaks: View 04GUATEMALA2416 at Wikileaks.org
Origin: Embassy Guatemala
Created: 2004-09-21 20:02:00
Classification: CONFIDENTIAL
Tags: ETRD EFIN PGOV PREL GT DR
Redacted: This cable was not redacted by Wikileaks.
This record is a partial extract of the original cable. The full text of the original cable is not available.

212002Z Sep 04

 
C O N F I D E N T I A L GUATEMALA 002416 
 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR WHA A/S NORIEGA 
USOAS FOR JMAISTO 
USTR FOR RVARGO 
 
E.O. 12958: DECL: 09/21/09 
TAGS: ETRD, EFIN, PGOV, PREL, GT, DR.XK 
SUBJECT: DEMARCHE REQUEST:  SCUTTLING THE DOMINICAN 
REPUBLIC'S PROPOSED HFCS TAX 
 
REF: A. STATE 201601 
 
     B. SANTO DOMINGO 05242 
 
Classified By: Classified by DCM D. Bruce Wharton.  Reason 1.5 d. 
 
(C) DCM will deliver subject demarche to Vice President 
Eduardo Stein on September 22 (the Ambassador is on an 
official visit to the Guatemalan highlands).  President 
Berger is in New York this week for the UNGA, but there may 
be an opportunity to raise the topic with him there.  We also 
note that Foreign Minister Jorge Briz and Undersecretary 
Dobriansky are to meet on the margins of the UNGA, another 
possible opportunity to raise the HFCS tax issue. 
HAMILTON 

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