FILE PHOTO: A customer picks up an Amazon package at a Femsa's Oxxo convenience store in Monterrey, Mexico August 27, 2018. To match Insight AMAZON.COM-LATAM/BRAZIL REUTERS/Daniel Becerril/File Photo
SAO PAULO: Amazon.com Inc is struggling to ramp up its operations in Brazil, a promising market that so far has proven difficult for the world's largest online retailer to crack, according to nearly twenty people with knowledge of the situation.
Challenges include the nation's tangled tax system, complicated logistics and testy relations with some prominent vendors, who say the Seattle behemoth has shown little flexibility in negotiating even though it is still a minor e-commerce player in Brazil.
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