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Cross-border trade

As well as palm oil, I also sell vegetables and beans.

With that money, I buy things such as clothes, salt and household goods which are more expensive up-country than in Freetown.

It is difficult to carry all these things, so I ask other people to help me.

I would like to go to Guinea, where some goods are cheaper than here. Maybe the customs officials would take pity on me and not charge me too much duty.

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