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Last Updated on Wednesday, 16 September 2009 18:56 Written by GHV Editorial Tuesday, 01 September 2009 19:59

Flowers are big business. The U.S. floral market is a $20 billion-a-year industry, yet the vast majority of the 4 billion flower stems sold here every year come from Latin America. Colombia, Ecuador and Peru have been exporting flowers to us duty-free since the 1980s. As part of the War on Drugs, import taxes on South American flowers were eliminated to give farmers a profitable crop to replace cocaine.

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