Mozambique: Minister warns of crackdown against dishonest exporters

Mozambican Agriculture Minster Celso Correia warned on Thursday that the government intends to crack down on exporters who attempt to defraud the state by falsifying the real value of their goods, stated on the export declarations. Speaking at Carapira, in Monapo district, in the northern province of Nampula, at a meeting with stakeholders in the government’s flagship agricultural development progamme, Sustenta, Correia said his Ministry is working with the customs service and other authorities “so that we can bring order to exports”. He called for honesty from all exporters, “since we are in a moment of many adversities, and the lives of thousands of Mozambicans are at stake”. This was a time “in which nobody expects to see nations and investments grow, but we are managing to open factories, and to see our warehouses full of food. It must not be the exporting class which puts at risk our path and our objectives”. He urged producers to be vigilant about the prices at which they ...