“On the 9th of August, the Office of the President issued a press release stating that President Ali had instructed that freight charges were to be reduced to pre pandemic levels (March 1, 2020) in the calculation of Customs Duties, Excise Taxes and Input Vat on goods imported … Due to having observed that Guyanese were being forced to pay these increased prices, the President had decided to announce the tax relief… to be applied to any invoices from August 1, 2021 and is set to run until January 31, 2022.”