Troubles at DFS duty-free shopping unit made stock one of worst French performers in 1997.

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Customs officials estimate that smuggling is now four times larger than legitimate duty-free shopping.

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Overseas workers are offered tax incentives, duty-free shopping, and discounted vacations back home.

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The same goes for duty-free shopping: if a decision has been taken to abolish it, then go ahead and abolish it.

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He thinks people can be persuaded to support projects such as the abolition of duty-free shopping with the argument that such things are right in principle.

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Suvarnabhumi's international terminal is one long strip with retail outlets distributed throughout, and passengers leaving passport control emerge into the center of a kilometer-long stretch of duty-free shopping.

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Those figures include sales from duty- and tax-free stores in three other airports in the country and the duty-free shopping complex in the middle of Bangkok being constructed as a complement to the new airport space (where, without an impending flight or carry-on baggage, shoppers can spend more relaxed time buying duty-free goods, which King Power will have waiting for them at check-in).

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