It's the law. (Panorama).TAXES Argentina imposed a controversial tax on all exports. The tax, ranging as high as 10% on the value of goods, could generate US$700 million in 2002. AVIATION Peruvian airline AeroContinente filed a lawsuit seeking up to US$1 billion from the Chilean government for losses suffered in 2001 when Chile grounded its planes, froze its assets and arrested airline officials on money-laundering charges. The charges were thrown out by a Chilean judge. Transporte Aereo Militar de Ecuador (Tame) was named in a lawsuit filed in Miami by U.S. relatives of passengers who died in a January jet crash. The Ecuadoran airline's Boeing 727-100, with 92 people aboard, was headed for Call, Colombia. Family members of a man who died when American Airlines American Airlines Major U.S. airline. American was created through a merger of several smaller U.S. airlines and incorporated in 1934. It continued to buy the routes of other airlines, becoming an international carrier in the 1970s; its routes include South America, the Flight 587 crashed in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of filed a U.S. lawsuit. The 32-year-old victim, who lived in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , was flying to the Dominican Republic Dominican Republic (dəmĭn`ĭkən), republic (2005 est. pop. 8,950,000), 18,700 sq mi (48,442 sq km), West Indies, on the eastern two thirds of the island of Hispaniola. The capital and largest city is Santo Domingo. to pick up his 9-year-old daughter. BANKING Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. , the third-largest U.S. bank, sued Brazil's former Central Bank President Antonio Carlos Braga Lemgruber for allegedly embezzling US$38 million from Brazil's Banco Liberal, owned by Bank of America. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. federal court, also named former Banco Liberal President Aldo Floris and Banco Liberal head trader Lauro de Luca. MONOPOLY Mexico's Federal Competition Commission ruled that the country's No. 1 beverage company, Coca-Cola, engages in monopolistic practices. Following complaints by Grupo Aga and Pepsi-Cola Mexicana, the commission found among other things that CocaCola offered discounts for clients that refused to do business with its competitors. INSIDER TRADING Mexican businessman Juan Pablo Juan Pablo is a common Spanish given name. It is the equivalent of "John Paul" in English or "Jean-Paul" in French. Some famous people with this name:
adj. Cooked with onions: lyonnaise potatoes; potatoes lyonnaise. [From French (à la) Lyonnaise, (in the manner) of Lyon, from Lyon. des Eaux. SOURCE: National Law center for Inter-American Free Trade (natlaw@natlaw.com); Translegal Inc. (translegal@earthlink.net) |
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