Puerto Rico to invest more money in rum promotion

Puerto Rico is toasting a proposition to invest more heavily in its world-class rum. Legislators voted late Friday to increase from 10 percent to 25 percent the portion of a federal excise tax on local rum they will use to promote the island's rum industry.

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