Impact of Banning Imported Second-hand Clothes on the Local Manufacturing Industries’ Promotion in the EAC Region: Case of Tanzania

Rutechura,, Deodatus Rutechura (2019) Impact of Banning Imported Second-hand Clothes on the Local Manufacturing Industries’ Promotion in the EAC Region: Case of Tanzania. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

Many people in EAC use secondhand clothes, there are many people who depend on the second-hand clothes business for employment as well as for getting cheap and affordable clothes. The East African Community (EAC) has recently proposed banning of second-hand clothes with the aim of boosting local manufacturing industries. The main objective of the research was to assess the relationship between banning second-hand clothes and country’s promotion and development of textile manufacturing industries. Findings showed that most second-hand clothes stakeholders do not agree that there is a relation between the banning of imported second-hand clothes and the development of local textile manufacturing industries. The bad performance of local manufacturing industries has been caused more reasons than importation of second-hand clothes including. Give the above findings the study recommends the following; The EAC Partner States’ government ministries/ agencies and departments dealing with trade and EAC affairs need to research more on the issue of banning second hand clothes; ban should be done in phases; countries should address other challenges other than banning SHC to promote LMIs; EAC to revise its policy on Export Processing Zones (EPZ); Researchers should conduct more study on this area and publish on different situations in relation to this study, this will be a way forward to come up with more Literature reviews.

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