By taking the higher-risk strategy of owning the goods and reselling them rather than acting as a fee-based broker, Via Trading is positioned to benefit from high markups on goods such as tools, electronics and clothing.

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Key to the firm's strategy isn't so much discarding manufactured goods for pure service businesses.

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The government's strategy has been to treat imports of capital goods, such as machine tools, relatively generously (to help Kia and its peers improve their manufacturing), while clamping down on imports of western consumer goods, such as cars.

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