Related Keywords: African countries, agreed to ban import of used clothes, Burundi and South Sudan, comprises of Uganda, EAC, EAC Vision 2050, enhance textile manufacturing sector, from US and UK, head of states in the East African Community, Kenya, presently contributes 8.7 percent, regional Gross Domestic Product to 25 percent by 2032, Rwanda, Tanzania
The African countries to enhance textile manufacturing sector that presently contributes 8.7 percent to the regional Gross Domestic Product to 25 percent by 2032. In March 2016, the head of states in the East African Community (EAC), which comprises of Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan, had agreed to ban import of used clothes from the US and UK into the region in three years as part of the EAC Vision 2050 and the Industrialization Policy. The countries are hoping that local factories will create much-needed jobs and increase exports.
