Levi's and Wrangler jeans are pure Americana, but millions of pairs of the fashion staple are shipped from a factory in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. But the site risks closure, with the US law that enabled it set to expire in September unless US President Donald Trump agrees to extend it. The 25-year-old African Growth and Opportunities Act gives duty-free benefits to goods made on the continent and without it many US importers will likely look at cheaper production hubs.
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00:00There was a lot of unemployment and all that.
00:29And that's the change, the value, which I think as a community we have developed here
00:35is that from people that time when we started, they will come, they will steal stuff, they
00:41will take out our running cables and all that.
00:45And then one day we had a good deal with them that we'll start giving them employment, training
00:48and all that.
00:49So today, if you come here, you can see around.
00:52It's a well-developed community, and we have a community of 150,000 people who directly
00:59or indirectly depend on us.
01:01So it has stabilized the whole socioeconomics of the area.
01:29So I think President Trump would be favorable to Africa.
01:41That's my personal gut feeling.
01:43But overall feeling is that, you know, and it makes logic, because he works on logics
01:48and common sense.
01:51It makes sense because you're taking away business from somewhere.
01:54You have to play somewhere.
01:56You cannot produce what we are producing in America, right?
02:00So he has to find an alternative.
02:03And I think he's smart that he will look for an alternative in Africa.
02:27Here is where we get our daily bread.
02:32Our families are very happy.
02:34For example, me as a mother, and so many mothers who are inside here, they are very happy because
02:40they are getting their daily bread here.
02:42Our children are going to school.
02:44The society at large is very happy because the rate of crime in the society has gone
02:51down because the majority are employed here.