{"id":38138,"date":"2018-09-07T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rra-seize-200-tons-of-second-hand-clothes-fraud\/"},"modified":"2018-09-07T13:41:03","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T13:41:03","slug":"rra-seize-200-tons-of-second-hand-clothes-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rra-seize-200-tons-of-second-hand-clothes-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"RRA seize 200 tons of second-hand clothes fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA) reports that the seized second-hand clothes tons were shipped into the country illegally.<\/p>\n<p>The increase in caguwa fraud results from the hiking of taxes on used wears.<\/p>\n<p>RRA Commissioner-General Richard Tusabe told IGIHE Thursday that the 200 fraud tons have been destroyed since 2016.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe encourage caguwa fraudsters to get together and consolidate their capital to start textile manufacturing within Rwanda instead of bringing in the country substandard clothes,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In July 2016, Rwanda hiked taxes on used garments and shoes from $0.2 and $0.4 respectively to $2.5 per kilogram and further to $4 and $5 on used garments and shoes respectively in July 2017. <\/p>\n<p>The 2017 tax was maintained in the current fiscal year that started in July.<br \/>\nDiscouraging imports of used clothes and shoes intends to promote local manufacturers through the initiative dubbed \u201cMade in Rwanda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ban on importation of second-hand clothes and shoes was in May 2016 endorsed by the East African Community (EAC) Heads of State during a summit in Arusha, Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution intends to phase out caguwa by 2019.<\/p>\n<p>This aims to resuscitate the struggling regional textile industries, create entry level jobs and reduce trade deficits in the EAC member states. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-27166 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/caguwa-2-2jpa7ce-e1cf8.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 200 tons of used clothes locally know as \u2018caguwa\u2019 have been seized and destroyed over the last two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38138"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38138"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}