Mike Poverello’s blog reports that Zimbabwe’s manufacturing firms want government to consider banning the import of second-hand clothes as part of reforms to protect the local industry.
Parliament was told last week that used clothes have flooded the domestic market, compounding the woes of a local textile industry on the verge of collapse.
According to Poverello, industry experts say Zimbabwe has a market for 80 million garments but only 20 million of those are locally manufactured. Also, almost 90% of imported new clothes are exempt from duty because of regional trade agreements, analysts noted.
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Zimbabwe battles 2nd-hand clothes imports
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