Jamaican clearly have more money to spend this Christmas
2015.............and Christmas isn't even here as yet!
This as the Jamaica Customs Agency has posted some
interesting stats that indicate that Jamaicans are shopping more online as
reported in the article entitled “Online
Shopping Duty-Free Limit Could Be Increased, Customs Considering Move”,
published Monday September 28, 2015 by Jovan Johnson, Gleaner Writer, The Jamaica Gleaner.
Here's what Commissioner of Customs, Major Richard Reese,
revealed about Jamaicans and importation up to Wednesday September 23rd
2015:
1. 7%
increase in Customs Duties revenue collected compared to the same period in
2014
2. JA$83.8
billion Customs Duties revenue collected up to Wednesday September 23rd
2015
3. JA$78.1
billion Customs Duties revenue collected up to Tuesday September 23rd
2014
So why are Jamaican shopping more online? And what does the
Jamaica Customs Agency plan to do to benefit from this trend?
Jamaica Customs
Agency Stats - Why US$100 Duty Free shopping coming as Jamaicans shopping
online this Christmas
Most likely, this is being driven by the trend towards
Jamaican buying School items and supplies online, which they can do by shopping
at online deal store in bulk.
This as Jamaicans have more disposable income to spend
seeing as the price of Energy i.e. Gasoline and consequently Electricity have
both been trending down as the price of Oil drop below US$50 as reported in my blog article
entitled “US$50
per barrel Oil from OPEC – Why Ford Motors is predicting a bright future for
All-Electric Vehicles”.
I know this as traffic on my How-to articles related to
Shopping Online on Geezam entitled “How to ship things to
Jamaica after you’re purchase them online”. Traffic to my other blog article
entitled “How
to purchase items and subscribe to Magazines online and ship them to Jamaica”
has also seen a steady increase as well.
Jamaica Customs
Agency Stats - Why US$100 Duty Free shopping coming as Jamaicans shopping
online this Christmas
Encouraged by these signs, the Jamaica Customs Agency has
put in place a twelve (12) point plan to raise an additional JA$2.1 billion in
revenue. This will involve raising the duty-free limit for online shopping to
US$100 from the current level of US$50.
That means any item that costs under US$100 can be shipped
to Jamaica Duty Free. While this may not sound like much, a lot of small items
such as book, stationary and school supplies cost under US$100.
A few electronics gadgets such as the uber-popular
just-releasedUS$49 Amazon Fire Tablet as reported in my MICO Wars blog article
entitled “US$50
Amazon Fire Tablet and US$50 Amazon Fire TV Stick makes Christmas bright”
will be on every Jamaicans' shopping list this Christmas.
For the more
Developer oriented, the US$35 Raspberry Pi 2 Model B beckons as reported in my blog article
entitled “US$35
Raspberry Pi 2 Model B to run Windows 10 - Why Windows Developer Program for
IoT is Microsoft 's IoT Push”.
You can also get the Raspberry Pi 7” Touchscreen for US$60
and make a really cool touch screen controller as explained in my blog article
entitled “How
the US$60 Raspberry Pi 7” Touchscreen can be used as a Touchscreen Controller”
But that’s' just what I'm planning to buy for myself, if
this proves to be true.
So we wait with baited breath for the Jamaica Customs Agency
to make another announcement and make this official as Christmas nice again.
Also, it means I can start posting ads in the Sunday Gleaner!
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