Why I can't buy Minion toys with Chinese yuan

Why I can't buy Minion toys with Chinese yuan

A clerk counts Chinese yuan and U.S. dollar banknotes at a branch of Bank of China in Taiyuan

British businessman Tony Brown is ready to pay in Chinese yuan for the cuddly toys and other funfair stall prizes he buys from a handful of Chinese factories. But they just don’t want it.

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