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The Market Place and the Trade in Cantamanto
The capital of a developing economy, acra doesn't have the world's best road infor structure. So these tracks, thesemi trailers who bring the containers of clothing from temme port, they have to arrive there in the middle of the night that they start parking up at three a m. And by four a m the market is absolutely chalca block, absolutely rammed with importers and traders and retailerswho were checking off the bales as they're coming off the back of these tracks. These great big balesas you know, as tall as a man really, and wrapped in bright plastic stamped with their countries of origin. Our clothes come from america, from euro
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