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EAC plans ban on imported second hand clothes, shoes

Second hand clothes on display at Gikomba market in Nairobi. The East African Community plans to ban importation of such clothes in an effort to revive local textile industries. [PHOTO: JENIPHER WACHIE/standard]

East African Community (EAC) member states have agreed to start a process to impose a ban on second hand clothes.

The development came on a day when South Sudan was admitted to the region’s bloc.

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