A couple of East African countries resolved to stop importing used clothes, one of the reasons being to boost their own local textile industries. They were alm

A couple of East African countries resolved to stop importing used clothes, one of the reasons being to boost their own local textile industries. They were almost all pressured out of their resolve (except Rwanda IIRC). Modern Opium Wars. So you see it doesn't matter that they don't want used clothes, they will bend to the might of America.