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Cheap shoes from China have nearly crippled Kenya's shoe manufacturing industry. Shoemakers in the country blame the government for failing to protect local jobs. But as with most developing countries, the reality of free trade means juggling the arrival of more imports with the chance for more exports. Industrialised countries are putting pressure on African governments to drop import tariffs and open their markets to manufactured products from industrialised countries.