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Philippines Free Trade Zones a Smuggling Haven

Philippines Free Trade Zones a Smuggling Haven

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Apr 12, 2012
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For months President Benigno S. Aquino III has been taking his war against corruption – so far about the only issue on which he gets high marks – against yet another foe, smugglers who use the country’s free trade zones as landing bases for their illicit goods.

So far, however, his war doesn’t seem to have had a lot of impact, at least not yet. In August…

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