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Another Trump trade war, this time with Rwanda over secondhand clothes

Florence Mutiso (right) a mitumba trader at Toi market in Nairobi attends to a client. [David Njaaga/Standard]

The sweaty mechanic tossed aside the used jeans one by one, digging deep through the pile of secondhand clothes that are at the center of another, if little-noticed, Trump administration trade war.

The used clothes cast off by Americans and sold in bulk in African nations, a multi-million-dollar business, have been blamed in part for undermining local textile industries.

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