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Second-hand clothes, popularly known as mitumba, are mostly imported from North America and Europe into Kenya. Most of these second-hand clothes are sold in Gikomba Market, Nairobi. It is estimated to hold close to 65,000 traders. According to the Finance Bill 2016, all imported clothes will attract a duty of $0.4 (Sh40.8) per kilogramme of clothes up from $0.2 (Sh20.4) per kilogramme, the Government believes is as a win-win solution to the mitumba trade that has crippled the country’s textile industry.
