Native Americans add to Canada tobacco strife

21-Jun-2007

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By Gavin Lipsith

Tax-free tobacco sales on Native American reserves are adding to pressures on the tobacco category in Canadian duty-free, border operators have told DFNI. Under Canadian (and US)........

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