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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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This is due in part to the chokepoints they cause in the flow of global freight as well as the fact that they give people access to resources and commercial activity more effectively. The United States was not successful in obtaining a concession for a canal in Panama as a province of Colombia.

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