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Fairtrade Africa has pledged to support the government’s efforts to equip smallholder farmers in the country to enable them to add value to their produce to make them competitive on the global market.
Arran Banner Jan McGregor with Councillor Timothy Billings at a previous Fairtrade Fortnight event. Want to read more? At the start of the pandemic in March we took the decision to make online access to our news free of charge by taking down our paywall. At a time where accurate information about Covid-19 was vital to our community, this was the right decision – even though it meant a drop in our income. In order to help safeguard the future of our journalism, the time has now come to reinstate our paywall, However, rest assured that access to all Covid related news will still remain free...
Fairtrade Africa has urged the government of Ghana and the United Kingdom to finalise a trade agreement to save fruit exporting companies. Ghana and UK failed to finalise a trade agreement before the end of the BREXIT transition December 31, 2020. It said although it welcomed the joint announcement by the Ghanaian Ministry of Trade and the UK Department of Trade earlier this month that an agreement had been reached to allow tariff free access the delay was impacting negatively on players in the industry. “We call on both the UK and Ghanaian governments to immediately sign an agreement to...
Govt refuses calls to pay back Ghana banana tariffs Despite pressure there are no plans to reimburse suppliers for unsustainable post-Brexit tariffs of £95 per tonne on Ghanaian bananas The UK accounts for around 40 per cent of Ghana's banana exports Related Articles The UK government has said it does not plan to waive the extortionate post-Brexit tariffs paid on imports of bananas from Ghana amid calls for producers to be recompensed. In the absence of a free trade agreement, Ghana was moved onto standard Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP) terms at the end of the Brexit transition per...
Post Brexit trade deal with Ghana almost done but tariffs have already hit banana imports Further to our report in November last year about the threat of Brexit to imports of bananas from Ghana, the UK and Ghanaian government announced on Tuesday this week that they have “reached a consensus on the main elements of a new trade agreement. This provides the basis to replicate, the effects of the existing trade relationship between the UK and Ghana”. The statement goes on to say “We intend over the next few weeks to finalise the text of the Agreement”. This is welcome news for the many t...