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No, it hurts their industry, their society is benefited by the poorest people having decent clothes they can actually afford. Their society isn't hurt by a lack of local sweatshops where children wearing rags stitch together clothing they could never afford to buy.
Think about how many people get a job selling the used clothes for low wages to how many would work in a textile factory....
And making their own clothes doesn't mean becoming a sweatshop for the rest of the world.
I have no idea about what their child labor laws are, but I doubt only children would work in textile.
It's Africa. Most countries don't have or follow child labor laws. Sweatshops across the continent will not be any better than the Asian ones that currently supply the west. A ban would initially see domestic small businesses fill the gap, but within 1-2 decades the continent would be dominated by industrial sweatshops and most of the profits would go to < 1%.
Why should we think about the domestic capitalists profit margins anyway, instead of the significant increase in resource consumption this ban would cause (textile, carbon, and land)... The increase in demand for first use textiles alone would drive up the cost of textiles everywhere.
Textile businesses failed all across the west due to globalisation. The solution has never been to ban foreign textile imports. This wreaks of local capitalists trying to monopolise the continents market, so that they can price gouge in the name of "the economy".
So their economy is lacking the jobs that industry could provide then. The people having nicer clothes but fewer jobs might not be as positive as a trade off as it might seem.