By Ana Paula Candil ( June 17, 2019, 22:24 GMT | Insight) -- Brazil's provisional “economic freedom” law is aimed at reducing barriers to entry and benefiting small and new players as it reduces regulatory burden over companies, the country's competition advocacy secretary said today. Secretary César Mattos of the Secretariat for Competition Advocacy, or SEAE, said the growing volume of regulations increases the cost of doing business in Brazil — an issue the new law, adopted in April, is trying to address. “We arrived at a time of regulatory exhaustion in the country,” he said.Brazil's provisional “economic freedom” law is aimed at reducing barriers to entry and benefiting small and new players as it reduces regulatory burden over companies, the country's competition advocacy secretary said today....
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