Jyldyz Mamadjanova counts herself as one of the winners in the Eurasian Union.

She sells knockoff tracksuits, sporting the Nike swoosh, or beadazzled with “Armani,” at the Dordoi Bazaar on the outskirts of Bishkek, the Kyrgyz capital. Before Kyrgyzstan joined the Eurasian Union, she explained, everything she sold was imported from China.

But as the cost of Chinese clothes has risen, Kyrgyz textile manufacturers have stepped in to make fake Nike sweatsuits locally. Mamadjanova sells both, but most of her stock is now locally sourced. And business is going well.

Dordoi was supposed to be one of the biggest casualties of the EEU. It is almost a city in itself, a giant labyrinth built from 30,000 shipping containers where traders sell everything from cheap clothes to construction materials, and traditionally most of it has come from China.