He partnered up with a group from Hong Kong, bought a concession to sell duty-free goods and a few years later opened up his first duty-free stores in Thailand, taking just 6, 000 square feet of space.
Tourism is an important money-earner with duty-free goods being a big draw for visitors.
Does the non-stop flogging of scratch cards, duty-free goods, scorching coffee and rubber paninis initiate premature labour in exasperated mums-to-be?
As I plugged my earphones into my iPod and flipped through some magazines, the woman who bought the Gucci shoes walked down the aisle, carrying many plastic bags of duty-free goods.
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).
These export-processing zones provided for duty-free entry and duty-free exit for export-oriented goods and helped in the transfer of technology and skill to the developed countries.
It is nicely carpeted, has exquisite art displays, and features an impressive range of luxury goods in duty-free shops.
Mr Bradbourn said the one-bag rule was harmful to regional airports as it put passengers off from buying goods at duty-free shops.
Because Peru is a developing Andean country, U.S. law already allows most of its goods to enter the country duty-free.
As if to emphasise the point, the briefcases given as part of a press kit to journalists at the summit were manufactured in an industrial zone where 13, 000 Jordanian workers piece Israeli components into goods that are sold free of duty in the United States.
DFS, a luxury-goods distributor whose assets include 180 duty-free stores in Asia.
Last week the Americans expanded the list of goods that poor African countries can import duty-free to the United States.
The Colombia trade agreement would allow more than 80% of U.S. consumer and industrial goods to enter the Latin American nation duty-free.
Currently some 80% of these countries' goods come into the U.S. duty free, while many U.S. exports to them still face stiff tariffs.
If the Senate approves the agreement by the end of the year, as expected, 80% of U.S. exports of consumer and industrial goods and 90% of agricultural exports to Peru will immediately become duty-free, according to the U.S. trade representative's (USTR) office.
Almost half of U.S. agricultural goods, which currently face average tariffs of 15 percent, will immediately become duty-free.
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