The Ministry of Trade and Industry has dismissed media reports that there is currently tension at the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCfTA) Secretariat in Accra. The Ministry said in a statement that the reports are not only untrue but also disingenuous and are designed to cause disaffection between the Ghanaian workers at the Secretariat and their foreign counterparts. […]
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Ghana and UK finalise deal to provide duty free access to the UK market
Ghana and the United Kingdom (UK) on Thursday February 4 finalised an agreement that will provide duty-free and quota-free access for Ghana to the UK market and preferential tariff reductions for UK exporters. Ghana’s Trade Minister Alan Kyerematen in a tweet said “I am pleased that we have finalised a new Interim Ghana-UK Trade Partnership Agreement providing […]
President Akufo-Addo has delivered; give him four more years-Alan Kyerematen
The Minister for Trade and Industry, Alan Kyerematen, says the significant amount of work undertaken by the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, requires that the Ghanaian people repose their confidence in him, once again, and vote massively for him in the 2020 elections. Addressing traders at the Kaneshie Market, on Tuesday, 24th […]
Remove barriers to facilitate trade-UNCTAD urges African Countries
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has asked African countries to remove trade barriers from the continent, in fulfilment of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) agreement onto which they signed in May this year. In its latest Economic Development in Africa (EDA) Report, UNCTAD said it was important for African […]