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15-Mar-2005
JAMAICA. A tax on goods imported for sale to tourists has offset any revenue gains made from the increase in cruise passenger traffic last year, according to one of Jamaica's leading downtown duty-free operators
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Bijoux Duty Free executive Anup Chandiram told DFNI that he believed the tax, which comprises an 8% import tax plus a 2% 'user fee', had caused revenues for the island's
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