Via: BikeBiz.com

When Europe gets worried about floods of cheap Chinese bicycles, it slaps on punitive duties. Right now, the anti-dumping tax is 48.5 percent. However, to protect its domestic bicycle producers Nigeria has taken a more draconian step: it has banned imports altogether. But this isn’t just stopping imports of gas-pipe bicycles, it’s preventing Nigerian athletes from importing top-flight road bikes.

And the Cycling Federation of Nigeria (CFN) is not best pleased, reports Nigeria’s The Tide newspaper.

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Can you imagine riders meeting up “down by the docks” to smuggle in some bikes.