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Free trade's end run: got something to sell the world? Chile's port of Arica says come...

By Joelson, Daniel A.
Publication: Latin Trade
Date: Monday, March 1 2004

Bolivia has more than a hundred varieties of wood, among the finest in Latin America, exceeding Chilean wood in both variety and quality, says Fathi Abdalla, a naturalized Bolivian. Yet he's exporting the products made from that wood--doors, frames, closets and other finished wood products--from Arica, a northern Chilean port, and stamping "Made in Chile" on them.

Abdalla is ever-mindful of La Paz's rancor toward Chile, which runs deep since a 19th-century war with its neighbor that left Bolivia landlocked. Yet Chile's track record of signing trade deals over the past

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