Professor given condition:The group is composed of family operated import businesses that introduce commercial goods to a country's economy. Goods vary from shoes and toys to plastic basins. Most small business merchants also export native goods (such as Mayan textiles and wooden icons) to countries like the United States. Many operate a store from which merchandise is available to the public and other merchants. While they are almost non-existent in Canada (high import taxes lowers their profit margin), small merchants control large portions of the South American economy. Made up of mostly upper middle class immigrants, they identify themselves through nation specific trade guilds (such as the Guatemala Taiwan Association of Commerce).
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