But Colombia's weak economy and its crackdown on money laundering have hurt Panama's Colon Free Zone, a huge duty-free trading centre.
Huge duties are imposed and rarely removed, even when conditions change.
If that happens, both would have the right to levy huge duties on the offending products.
Over the years I've been perplexed by the fact that despite worldwide tobacco-advertising bans and astronomical government investment in anti-smoking initiatives, global consumers continue to inhale 5,765 billion cigarettes a year and that's not even including the huge duty-free or international black market trades.
The heavily polluting Ambassador was a spiritual cousin to the unloved East German Trabant, but it routinely sold out because the protectionist Indian car market slapped huge duties on anything imported.
It's been pretty tough on a lot of them; it's been pretty tough on all of us". The veteran singer described her hosting duties as "a huge responsibility," adding: "The reason we came back to Vegas instead of going somewhere else for the show this year was to show that we're not afraid.
The snow we had in London made me realise I don't have enough of the appropriate clothing at all – I've been doing a few practice runs of painting in extreme cold in a huge heavy duty refrigerator.
[Int014] " I think a complete lay person thinks antipsychotics are some huge, heavy duty, massively sedating and tranquillising, thing that rots your brain and stops your functioning, and just sort of zombifies people.
But now that we're given this huge responsibility, almost, I feel like it's our duty to take it seriously".
Huge death duties on the estate of his father and elder brother had eroded much of the family fortune.
