He says the people here are poor. The middlemen would be free to continue selling to them if it was at a price they could afford.

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Despite a lack of experience, she tried selling the batik herself rather than going through a supplier, but sales were poor and she feared the market for batik was disappearing.

VOA: standard.2010.04.14

So Japanese firms are caught in a vicious circle: because they are not selling to poor countries, their volume stays low, which keeps prices high, which makes selling to poor countries infeasible.

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