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Free trade has many benefits especially for expats. A lot of times, visa requirements are diminished and expats can more easily open businesses in their new homeland. As well, expats have many opportunities to export to or import from their former homeland. Some enterprising Chinese businessmen have taken advantage of the Chile-China FTA by opening the Chinese Commercial Center, a brand new shopping mall in Santiago, Chile.

The new half-million dollar complex houses 54 shops that sells products from Wenzhou, China. This includes handicrafts, clothes, and shoes. I can only imagine how the locals will react to going to shop at a Chinese Shopping Complex, but time will surely tell, but nonetheless the local government in Santiago helped to make this project a reality. This is the 14th overseas shopping complex that its owners, businessmen from Wenzhou, have opened and the first such complex in Latin America.

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Chinese Shopping Complex opens in Chile