Chinese capital controls bite

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From SCMP:

Bob Li, owner of an export-oriented leather bag maker in Jiaxing, Zhejiang province, feels that his “outbound” strategy has become a bitter pill to swallow after China’s crackdown on cash outflows dealt a heavy blow to the company’s overseas business plans.

Li’s business, Jiaxing Boya Leather Bag, was among the thousands of mainland firms that followed Beijing’s exhortations in the past few years to “go global” – but now they are getting hard hit by the central government’s exchange controls.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.