The added surcharges have reduced even further Cuba s purchasing power.

From October 5, many airlines will raise or resume fuel surcharges. From next Friday, traveling by air will ask for raises.

It is also reported that the Civil Aviation Department of Hong Kong stipulates that airlines may decide whether to collect fuel surcharges from November.

This has resulted in additional surcharges paid on freight, and for 2006, increases are expected in the cost of production as raw materials prices increase and energy costs are passed on to the products.

For this time, Lucky Air and Okay Airways took the lead in announcing the increase of fuel surcharges. As of press time, we have not seen the news that the four major domestic airlines announced follow up adjustments.

This phenomenon has rendered the airline business largely unprofitable and customers increasingly unhappy. Quality used to be included in the price of a ticket now, with surcharges for seat selection, meals, and the like, customers are charged for it separately.

From June 5, 2018, Air China, China Eastern Airlines, Hainan Airlines, Shanghai Airlines, Spring Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines, West Air, Okay Airways and other airlines resumed charging fuel surcharges for domestic routes that have been cancelled for three years. The charging standard is 10 yuan person.

30. Merely in terms of additional expenditures for shipping, price differentials and surcharges above market prices, the annual damage to the Cuban economy from the United States blockade amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars, a figure that varies in relation to the trade volume each year.

25. In the meantime, shippers, citing the risk of retaliation by the United States for having provided services to Cuba, include surcharges of anywhere from 15 to 30 per cent over prevailing market rates and, in the case of petroleum products, up to 35 per cent a barrel.

Some are directly trade related (e.g. import quotas, import surcharges, anti dumping measures), others have a link to trade in as far as their implementation is monitored at the border (e.g. labelling, packaging, sanitary standards), while a third group arises from general public policy (e.g. government procurement, investment restrictions, extent of intellectual property right protection).

14. In financial operations linked to this sector, banks still maintain discriminatory practices against Cuban banks, such as the imposition of surcharges for all operations and of the Cuba risk factor, which usually increases the cost of foreign transactions effected by Cuban enterprises by 3 to 5 per cent of their total value, though it may reach higher levels.

The Cathay Pacific website shows that all tickets issued or re issued by Cathay Pacific and Cathay Dragon on or after November 2 will include fuel surcharges for long distance travel to and from Hong Kong and the Southwest Pacific, North America, Europe, Middle East and India, Africa. and the fuel surcharge is 652 yuan. The fuel surcharge for short haul flights is 146 yuan.