From lipsticks and handbags to plastic figures of Buzz Lightyear, almost everything Priscila is selling in her small shop in São Paulo’s Paraisópolis favela, or slum, has been made in China.
“It’s just so much cheaper,” the shop owner says, pointing out items that would cost over five times as much if they had been manufactured in Brazil. “It has to be; otherwise lots of people here couldn’t afford it.”
Further down the hill from Priscila’s shop in Paraisópolis’s only chain store – Casas Bahia, a household goods retailer – it is the same story. Here most of the cheaper appliances, such as the electric drills, are “Made in China”.
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