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Latin America

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4. small market indeed. I assume Cuba has custom officials who check incoming packages and cargo

Tue Jan 29, 2013, 02:18 PM

Jan 2013

I imagine much of the merchandise is clothes and toiletries and such that can be justified as gifts to family and then resold on the black market.

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U.S.-Cuba Policy: A Boon for Cuban-American Entrepreneurs - Saul Landau [View all] flamingdem Jan 2013 OP

This really drives La Loba and Marco Rubio nuts! flamingdem Jan 2013 #2

commercial merchandise is technically subject to taxes by customs Bacchus4.0 Jan 2013 #6

One wonders naaman fletcher Jan 2013 #7

I can't make heads or tails of the "point" frankly Bacchus4.0 Jan 2013 #8