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Cablegate: Portugal: Amended Lacey Act

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STATE FOR OES/ENRC:MJOHNSON

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: SENV EAID EAGR ETRD EINV BTIO PO
SUBJECT: PORTUGAL: AMENDED LACEY ACT

REF: STATE 126654

Post delivered reftel points to Nuno Lucio, Deputy Director
of the Portuguese Ministry of Economy Office of Economic
Activities, who had no substantive response.
BALLARD

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