CAIRO - Pictured are too teenagers, brothers, selling watches near Attaba Tube Station, an area which swarms with vendors selling all manner of things, many of them imported from China, getting in the way of hot and bothered pedestrians! They use the microphone to blare out their wares. Moustafa (L), aged 15, and his brother, Hamdi (16), hail from Beni Sueif. They've come up to Cairo for the summer holidays, trying to make some cash to help their families. In September, they'll be heading back home in time for the new school year. Moustafa and Hamdi's imported watches are very cheap, ranging in price from LE10 to LE35. The Chinese are very clever at making their watches look very smart and shiny, and it's easy to give in to temptation and buy one, which of course is helping these two brothers, who are trying their best to make ends meet. What would be even better would be if such watches and the other imported Chinese goods, predominantly made of plastic, were made here in Egypt by Egyptian workers. That way the country would make more money and there would be more jobs. If such goods were manufactured here and then exported too, so much the better.
