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IPI Public StatementsIPI concerned about threats to press freedom in Mozambique28 June 1993
His Excellency Joaquim Alberto Chissano Vienna, 28 June 1993 The International Press Institute (IPI) is most concerned about the threat to press freedom in Mozambique posed by excessive customs duties being levied on the import of essential equipment. IPI understands that Mozambique’s independent press must pay crippling customs duties on imported equipment such as computers, while the country’s state-run media enjoy generous subsidies and tax exemptions. For example we are informed that when the Mediafax news agency recently tried to bring donated equipment worth US$ 10,800 into the country, a 48 per cent import duty was levied, leaving the agency with a US$ 5,200 tax bill. Similarly, we are informed that the new Portuguese-language weekly Savana, faces import duties amounting to US$ 96,320 on the equipment it needs to start production. IPI, representing over 2000 journalists and editors from leading newspapers, magazines and broadcasting organizations and news agencies in 68 countries, believes that such excessive import duties are aimed at silencing the voice of the independent press in Mozambique. We urge your Government to exempt all Mozambican media from import duties on essential equipment not manufactured in Mozambique. Yours sincerely, Johann P. Fritz Read Country Reports on 'Mozambique':
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