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WASHINGTON – Mr Rick Muskat woke up the morning after the US presidential election with an urgent task. He got his agent in China on the phone at 4.30am Beijing time and pressed him to ask their factory how many more pairs of men’s dress shoes they could make before Chinese New Year, at the end of January.
“I told them if they could make an additional 30,000 pairs, we would take that,” Mr Muskat, the co-owner of a shoe company called Deer Stags, said.
