Of course somebody will suffer: those middlemen, the small-time traders.
Most involved small-time traders operating in tiny firms, but not all.
Passenger trains run three times a week -- and they are packed with small-time traders, nearly all women.
Small-time traders fear that business opportunities will disappear in the time it takes to make a withdrawal, so they keep their working capital stuffed in cocoa jars.
He admires the corporate spirit that led women, servants and priests to become small-time traders, but he cannot quite bring himself to see merchants as heroes.
Their only solution to rejuvenate the economy was to encourage small-time traders and the peasants who made up 80% of the population; the constructivists had other ideas.
Small-time traders near the Chinese border may do well, but those nearer the heavily guarded boundary with South Korea are likely to struggle.
Small-time traders come from all over Russia and Central Asia to cut deals, often for Chinese-produced clofhing of American name-brand descent: Nautica, Nike, Gap, Guess.
It is known as a kongcheng or "hollow city" – aside from oilfield workers and a few small-time traders, few people stay there long-term.
Small-time traders had erected wooden structures around the base, cutting off the slogans: Chairman Mao's Writings Are — In the Midst of Struggle One Learns — Every day, the Visionary Vehicles team visited the Chery facilities.
Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan have plenty of rock salt -- Ms. Assefa's desk is decorated with great chunks of it -- but it is crushed and sold in the markets by small-time traders who have no means to iodize the salt.
