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Having a ball: How Kenya is addressing trade deficit with China

China city at Kenyatta University closed as disappointed customers turn back. [ Jenipher Wachie, Standard]

To counter trade imbalance between Kenya and China, Kenya has opened a new frontier by exporting a unique product to the Asian nation: testicles from he-goats. This revelation was made in court proceedings where a Chinese trader was sued for receiving the unique goods without paying a local trader some Sh6 million.

For those who have forgotten, Chinese merchandise came under scrutiny recently, when another Chinese national was accused of flooding the city with cheap imports that he sold for a song, upsetting the Nyamakima business elites who made Chinese goods their exclusive business.

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