Leisure and Personal Goods Specialist Retailers in Venezuela - New Report Available
As local manufacturing is very weak and concentrated on a limited number of items, most goods offered by leisure and personal goods specialist retailers come from abroad. Given the tougher constraints on imports imposed by the government, product variety suffered to a considerable extent in 2013. Many companies simply could not import items through official channels and therefore had to purchase imports at the free-market exchange rate, which increased 600% in just 12 months. These new conditions forced retailers to...
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