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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump versus Rwanda in trade battle over used clothes
A worker prepares thread at the the Utexrwa garment factory in Kigali, Rwanda April 17, 2018. Picture taken April 17, 2018. REUTERS/Jean Bizimana
KIGALI/ABIDJAN (Reuters) - Early last year, weeks after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, a little known American trade association filed a petition with the U.S. Trade Representative.
That seven-page letter set Africa in the cross-hairs of the new administrations America First trade ideology, pitting the worlds largest economy against tiny Rwanda over an unlikely U.S. export: cast-off clothes.
In March, the USTR warned Rwanda it would lose some benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), Americas flagship trade legislation for Africa, in 60 days after it increased tariffs on second-hand clothes to support its local garment industry.
The presidents determinations underscore his commitment to enforcing our trade laws and ensuring fairness in our trade relationships, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative C.J. Mahoney said, announcing the decision.
That seven-page letter set Africa in the cross-hairs of the new administrations America First trade ideology, pitting the worlds largest economy against tiny Rwanda over an unlikely U.S. export: cast-off clothes.
In March, the USTR warned Rwanda it would lose some benefits under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), Americas flagship trade legislation for Africa, in 60 days after it increased tariffs on second-hand clothes to support its local garment industry.
The presidents determinations underscore his commitment to enforcing our trade laws and ensuring fairness in our trade relationships, Deputy U.S. Trade Representative C.J. Mahoney said, announcing the decision.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-rwanda-usa-trade-insight/trump-versus-rwanda-in-trade-battle-over-used-clothes-idUSKCN1IP0WB
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Trump versus Rwanda in trade battle over used clothes (Original Post)
spanone
May 2018
OP
Great, yep China swoop in and take advantage and pollute all of Africa with their factories
bettyellen
May 2018
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sandensea
(21,711 posts)1. Cast-off clothes - that were almost without exception made in Asia.
MAGA. Make Asia Great Again.
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)2. Great, yep China swoop in and take advantage and pollute all of Africa with their factories
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)3. We're actually trying to stifle garment production in Rwanda?!
Tiny desperately poor and unstable Rwanda's presumably been "cheating" us and we're not going to put up with it any more?
It delegitimizes so much of what weve worked for for so many years, said Gail Strickler, who served as the top U.S. trade official on textiles until 2015. I think its horrible. I think its sad. I think its pathetic and I think its obscene.
Yes.
NOVEMBER 6, WE START FIXING THIS BY KICKING THE BASTARDS OUT OUT OF CONGRESS.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)4. Correction, because Rwanda's authoritarian leader
has imposed a stability that has mostly eliminated "desperate" poverty and allowed enterprises like this one. Guess I was thinking of little Burundi next door.
This is the eternal greed of natural plunderers struggling to break through barriers created by decent people.