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[Tvoivozhd <tvoivozd AT infionline.net>]

I've mentioned this a long way back.  Simple, no-labor niche imports can 
make you a good living.  I bought a number of beautiful ponchhos from 
small home workshops in villages twenty or so miles south of Quito, 
Equador. and 38 cents a pound Muenster cheese from the same 
villages---no U.S. import duty on Muenster cheese.

You would have to re-establish the village contacts I have lost---would  
help like crazy if you spoke Spanish  or Quechua.  I used to speak and 
read Spanish fluently, and some Aymara, but never Quechua.

My more-lavish-than-usual woolen ponchos cost me $2.75 to $3.00 apiece.  
leather ones would have been higher in cost---don't know how much.  Not 
sure what the leather was---in common use because of the heavy dew and 
wet, low-hanging clouds at 12,000 to 14,000 feet in the Andes.  I doubt 
that it was cow-leather.