Business Ghana bans goods from Nigeria, other countries

Ghana has disallowed a few things from section into its area, taking after Nigeria's strides that confined 41 things from access to outside trade.

Ghana however has put a restriction on a few products from being foreign made into the nation. Ghanaian Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr. Ekwow Spio-Garbrah expressed yesterday that Ghana and Nigeria are said to represent somewhere in the range of 68 for each penny of the ECOWAS district's Gross Domestic Product.

Regardless of the challenges, Ghana remains Nigeria's biggest exchange accomplice and most loved speculation center point in the West Africa sub-locale, as Ghana imports the biggest offer of all Nigerian oil trades in the West African sub-district. While 'stowed concrete' is on Nigeria's disallowance list, Dangote Cement gets and sacks somewhere in the range of 750,000 tons of bond a year for the Ghanaian showcase, and is relied upon to expand this to 1.5 million tons by end of this quarter. The Chief Executive Officer of Ghanaian Association of Ghana Industries expressed that there ought to be a reasonable letter kept in touch with the Nigerians griping about this, and afterward additionally attempt and utilize some conciliatory intends to rapidly resolve it," "In the event that it doesn't work then we should likewise take a gander at countervailing measures… it could be item focusing on," he said. "On the off chance that we likewise make it troublesome for them to fare, then we would need to discover shared conviction," Kate Quartey-Papafio, CEO of Reroy Cables contended. Notwithstanding for the individuals why should capable fare to Nigeria, you need to get distinctive authentications for various clients and it requires a mess of investment to get it. It makes the entire thing so unwieldy. You are trading the same thing yet you need to go and get authentications for each of the clients," she said. Nigeria has utilized an "Import Prohibition List" to reject certain merchandise passage into that nation, including a large group of pharmaceutical items. Likewise, the Managing Director of Intravenous Infusions Limited, a pharmaceutical organization, Mr Richard Okrah noticed that his organization could have produced an extra 25% of fare turnover from the Nigerian market. "We have been trying endeavors through our operators in Nigeria to get us off this rundown. In any case, it is turning into an exceptionally troublesome occupation for us," Richard Okrah told the B&FT by telephone. The organization, he said, presently delivers near 6million IV liquids of different sizes every year, and that: "We have the ability to step this up to 15 million since we are introducing another semi-robotized arrangement that ought to be up and running by the center of April this year". He said his organization confronts no such limitations from Burkina Faso, Cote D'Ivoire and different nations where it fares to.