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Cheap Chinese Imports Disrupt Manufacturing in Zimbabwe, Cost Thousands of Jobs

Cheap Chinese Imports Disrupt Manufacturing in Zimbabwe, Cost Thousands of Jobs
A shop displays some of the cheap products from China in Mutare, zimbabwe. Andrew Mambondiyani/Special to The Epoch Times
Andrew Mambondiyani
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MUTARE, Zimbabwe—Thousands of people in Zimbabwe have lost their jobs in the past few years because a flood of cheap imports from China has essentially destroyed the country’s manufacturing industry, experts say.

Businessman and former Harare Mayor Bernard Manyenyeni told The Epoch Times that some businesses in Zimbabwe have collapsed as a result of stiff competition from cheap Chinese products.

Andrew Mambondiyani
Andrew Mambondiyani
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Andrew Mambondiyani is a freelance journalist based in Zimbabwe with more than 10 years of journalism experience. He served as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT between 2010 and 2011, and in 2008 served as a Middleburry College Environment Journalism Fellow. His journalism has appeared in various local and international publications, including BBC, Thomson Reuters Foundation, Yale E360, IPs, Think Africa Press, SciDev.net, Centrepoint Now, Opendemocracy.net, and The Zimbabwean. He has a special interest in climate change, agriculture, human rights, sustainable development, and the environment in general.
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