USA Economic Nationalism and the Second-Hand Clothes Industry in Sub-Saharan Africa

USA Economic Nationalism and the Second-Hand Clothes Industry in Sub-Saharan Africa

ISBN13: 9781522575610|ISBN10: 1522575618|EISBN13: 9781522575627
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-7561-0.ch010
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Opati, Thaisaiyi Zephania. "USA Economic Nationalism and the Second-Hand Clothes Industry in Sub-Saharan Africa." International Firms’ Economic Nationalism and Trade Policies in the Globalization Era, edited by Harish C. Chandan and Bryan Christiansen, IGI Global, 2019, pp. 182-200. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7561-0.ch010

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Opati, T. Z. (2019). USA Economic Nationalism and the Second-Hand Clothes Industry in Sub-Saharan Africa. In H. Chandan & B. Christiansen (Eds.), International Firms’ Economic Nationalism and Trade Policies in the Globalization Era (pp. 182-200). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7561-0.ch010

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Opati, Thaisaiyi Zephania. "USA Economic Nationalism and the Second-Hand Clothes Industry in Sub-Saharan Africa." In International Firms’ Economic Nationalism and Trade Policies in the Globalization Era, edited by Harish C. Chandan and Bryan Christiansen, 182-200. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2019. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7561-0.ch010

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Abstract

This chapter examines the effects of USA economic nationalism in the second-hand clothing (SHC) industry within Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA). The SHC industry creates an estimated 355,000 jobs in the EAC, which predictably generates incomes of US$230 million that supports an estimated 1.4 million people. The chapter looks at attempts by Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria, Zambia, and Rwanda, among other Sub-Saharan to curtail SHC to protect their infant or struggling textile industry through subtle economic nationalism policies. It then examines the repercussions of having Rwanda implementing the ban from US market. The study inspects why the Trump-led administration feels that the SHC industry is important to the US. Undeniably, the chapter will put forward a case for banning of SHC and why it is gaining notoriety in the Sub-Saharan Africa region. The chapter finally advises what managers ought to do in the wake of economic nationalism and American only policy in Africa.

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