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Doing Business in Brazil

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Brazil is located in Eastern South America and borders the Atlantic Ocean as well as the countries of Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, Uruguay and Venezuela. Brazil ratified its latest constitution on October 5, 1988 and enacted a new civil law code in 2002.

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Interoceanic Passages

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The United States was not successful in obtaining a concession for a canal in Panama as a province of Colombia. In order to manage the increasing containerized traffic, the rail line between the Atlantic and Pacific sides was reopened in 2002 under a private concession. It measures 4 to 24 km in breadth and 530 km in length.

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