Government moves to ban Chinese trade in clothes

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Government has moved to put in place trade laws that will ban Chinese traders from dealing in clothes.

The Chinese traders were given 24 months from May last year to rearrange their businesses or face being sent back to China.

The government's decision to bar non-citizens - especially the Chinese traders - from dealing in clothing comes at a time when the Chinese traders are found at every corner of the country, selling all types of clothes, mainly fake overseas clothing brands.

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