Cuban cigars are already expensive, and getting more so.

ECONOMIST: Cuban cigars

Foreign companies have been slow to bring new drugs into Japan, because doing so requires expensive and cumbersome trials often duplicating those already carried out in other countries.

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This month's test suggests what many observers have long suspected: that most of those who wanted to take their money out have already done so illegally, whether by stuffing it into suitcases or by buying expensive jewellery at home and then selling it abroad.

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