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Tobacco issue sparks debate among Canadian operatorsTobacco issue sparks debate among Canadian operators
15-Nov-2002
CANADA. As the Canadian duty-free trade met in Vancouver this week at the 18th Convention of the Frontier Duty Free Association (FDFA), the Canadian government?s controversial tobacco policy continued to provoke lively debate. With tobacco sales at the US/Canada border down an estimated 34% since the introduction of an export tax on Canadian-manufactured tobacco, the FDFA is discussing whether to push for the indexing of duty-free tobacco, which would ensure that further tax increases would hit travel-retail less hard than the domestic market.
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?CANADA. As the Canadian duty-free trade met in Vancouver this week at the 18th Convention of the Frontier Duty Free Association (FDFA), the Canadian government?s controversial tobacco policy continued to........
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