While almost 142,000 hectares are a Unesco world heritage site (stretching over both countries), the forest extends much further, and it's in these unprotected parts that the controversy about logging rages, with fears of wider impact on the region's wildlife.
Even though Glaxo had paid taxes on its profits in Britain, and although there is a "double-taxation" agreement between Britain and America, which means that a company should not have to pay tax on the same profits in both countries, the IRS decided that much of this profit had, in fact, been made in America.
Exports from France and Germany, for example, are highly competitive with the rest of the world's and, unlike the United States, both countries export much more than they import.
Indeed, for both countries, much of the governments' political mandate and legitimacy during the post-war era rested on their ability to manage economic growth and development.
In both countries, much of the social investment discourse is framed in terms of protecting children, the most vulnerable group in the society, at a most critical stage of their development.
Both countries have much to lose if their relationship deteriorates significantly.
"But because I love both countries so much, I carry both my Mexican and American flags".
But it does reflect a realization by both countries that as much as the relationship improves, some of the old rules still apply.
The two drugs have emerged as scourges in both countries and throughout much of Asia.
The French and Dutch campaigns will not be decided by the fine print.Maquis against the acquis?The fact that the referendum campaigns in both countries have focused so much on the European Union as a whole underlines the dangers of the current debate.
