{"id":34868,"date":"2018-05-16T06:52:04","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T06:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=34868"},"modified":"2018-05-16T06:52:04","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T06:52:04","slug":"ban-on-second-hand-clothes-not-to-be-implemented-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/ban-on-second-hand-clothes-not-to-be-implemented-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Ban on second hand clothes not to be implemented now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Benjamin Jumbe.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Those pushing for the ban on second hand clothes may have to wait a little longer.<\/p>\n<p>The government has said a complete ban on the importation of used clothes will not be implemented now.<\/p>\n<p>This comes as some stakeholders challenge government to emulate neighboring countries like Rwanda to take a serious stand against second hand clothes importation.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Rwanda increased the tariffs on imported used clothes from $0.20 to $2.50 per kilo with an intention of eventually phasing out the importation; a move government argued would boost its local manufacturing sector.<\/p>\n<p>However the state minister for planning David Bahati says the ban is to be implemented in a phased manner as the country builds local capacity to manufacture own clothes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Benjamin Jumbe. Those pushing for the ban on second hand clothes may have to wait a little longer. The government has said a complete ban on the importation of used clothes will not be implemented now. This comes as some stakeholders challenge government to emulate neighboring countries like Rwanda to take a serious stand against second hand clothes importation. In 2016, Rwanda increased the tariffs on imported used clothes from $0.20 to $2.50 per kilo with an intention of eventually phasing out the importation; a move government argued would boost its local manufacturing sector. However the state minister for planning David Bahati says the ban is to be implemented in a phased manner as the country builds local capacity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":34871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[134,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}