Used Clothing Exports occupies a series of rooms at one end of a generic single-story office building on Tomken Road in Mississauga, Ontario. It's a few miles from Toronto and oceans away from the billions of emerging-market consumers who rely on secondhand clothes. But it's here in Mississauga that perhaps as much as one-third of the used clothing generated in Canada and the United States is sorted, priced and shipped by so-called graders. It's one of the world's biggest hubs for the purchase and sale of used clothing. Yet outside the secondhand industry, the fewer than 20 companies that constitute it are largely unknown.
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