May 19, 2013

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Reporter: AP

Chinese Look to U.S. for Chopsticks

AMERICUS, Ga. -- Let it be known that when China needed more chopsticks, the country of 1.3 billion people turned to the south-central Georgia city of Americus.

It may seem strange that for all the products that China exports to this country, it should need to look outside its borders for --- of all things ---
chopsticks.

But the country does not have the wood needed to manufacture enough of the slender utensils, which the majority of Chinese still use and throw away.

(Copyright 2011 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)


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