Tag: AGOA
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Free Trade Agreements least benefit Ghana
Ghana has benefitted little from Free Trade Agreements (FTA) it has signed over the last decade. The development has also contributed to widening the country’s trade deficit recorded over the period. According to a latest research conducted by IMANI Africa, Ghana has made little use of agreements with other ECOWAS countries and the US. It…
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US woos Ghanaian exporters via AGOA
The US Ambassador to Ghana, Robert Jackson has bemoaned the low levels of exports from Ghana to the US. He argues that Ghanaian producers have not taken full advantage of the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) which accords duty free treatment to nearly seven thousand qualifying products to the US. In an interview with…