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This was a blow to President William Ruto’s policy aimed at reducing such imports and boosting the sale of local garments, a Kenyan media outlet reported.
Mitumba traders from China have also opened shops in Gikomba, Kenya’s largest informal market for such goods.
The volume of used clothes shipments went up by 14.53 per cent YoY to 206,580 tonnes in the year ended March 2024.
In May 2017, Kenya withdrew from a collective East African Community’s resolution to ban mitumba imports after US suppliers threatened to match it with retaliatory action.
Fibre2Fashion News Desk (DS)