A new age of prosperity

25-Apr-2007

Uruguay is one of the few countries in South America to boast the full variety of duty-free shops—on land borders, on international bridges, on board ferries, in port terminals and in airport arrivals and departures areas. John Gallagher talks to the country’s duty-free operators about their plans for 2007

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Financial analysts abandoned Uruguay’s nickname of little Switzerland during the 2002 economic recession, which devastated the economies in most of the Mercosur countries. Like its bigger neighbours Brazil and Argentina,........
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