Ghana Textile News Summaries

GHANA: CEPS to burn seized foreign textiles
The Customs, Excise and Preventive Services (CEPS) has decided to burn seized foreign textiles bearing trademarks of local textile manufacturers to protect local businesses.

GHANA: Garment dealers demand reduction in tariffs
An association of indigenous manufacturers of textiles and garments, SPINnet, has called for reduction in tariffs and controlled limitations to accessing tax incentives in order to produce and sell Made-in-Ghana garments at affordable

GHANA: Appeal to protect the local cotton industry
Members of Cotton Growers Association of Ghana (CGAG) have appealed to the government to review its policy on the importation of lint cotton to protect the local cotton industry from total collapse. They said with the waiving of tariffs on imported cotton, it was difficult

GHANA: Government should rejuvenate the cotton industry
The farmers have urged the government to establish a Fund to provide medium and long term credit to them to expand the support base for agricultural production. It should be for land acquisition, credit assistance, supply of inputs and

GHANA: Cotton industry struggling for survival
The cotton production in the country has not progressed according to expectations in the last 40 years. Production has always been rather unpredictable in the country. Even though excellent conditions are available for growth of

GHANA: Apparel exports business is growing
Sleek Garments factory is determined to maintain the philosophy of quality first, quantity second. The company has bagged order for 75,000 casual rayon shirts from Ross Stores, US. Ross Stores is a large U.S. discount clothing retailer.

GHANA: Juapong Textiles may collapse again
The Juapong Textiles workers are crestfallen and are planning to stage a demonstration to highlight the fact that the company is on the verge of collapsing again.

GHANA: Textile exporters want AGOA to be extended beyond 2015
Nora Bannerman’s Sleek Garments Company exports shirts, pants and uniforms under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA). AGOA is an U.S. law that allows nearly 40 African countries to export some goods

GHANA: Garment workers unhappy with working conditions
Sleek Garment, the company established at Garment Village in Kpone is unable to provide workers their basic needs, the workers say.

GHANA: Free trade policy affecting textile sector
He blamed what he called the government’s unbridled free trade policy for discouraging local textile manufacturing firms

GHANA: Juapong Textiles to bounce back to operation in June
The Juapong Textiles Limited will bounce back to full operation in June under a new name, the Volta Star Textiles Limited...

GHANA: Govt. urged to stop cheap Chinese textile imports
The government has been urged to adopt polices to stop the importation of cheap textiles from China and other Asian countries, the chairperson of the Makola Market Traders Association Madam Yemoteley Quaye...

GHANA: Local textile industry collapses due to smuggling and importation of cheaper textiles
The collapse of the local textile industry is attributable to the smuggling and importation of cheaper textiles from China, the United States of America and Europe...

GHANA: Fake firms negate to revive domestic textile industry
Surge in the sale of fake logos and designs of many textile firms in Ghana have negated any effort on the part of the Government to revive local textile and garment industry...

GHANA: Minister denies blame for decline in textile industry
Mr Kwadwo Affram Asiedu, the Deputy Minister of Trade and Industry denied the blame on the government for the decline in the country's textile industry; Mr Asiedu said this when he launched the...

GHANA: Increase in textiles smuggling worries CEPS
The service has identified doctoring of invoices, mis-description of goods, under declaration of goods its officers encounter on a daily basis on declared values; The Assistant Commissioner, Public Relations of the Customs, Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) Miss Annie Anipa, has said on May 8...

GHANA: Juapong textiles not resuming production as planned
Juapong Textiles Limited which was to reopen early this month will not be resuming production as planned. The expected reopening has run into technical and other difficulties. The Minister of Trade and Industry, Mr Alan Kyerematen, said...

GHANA: Juapong Textiles faces obstacle in rejuvenation
The Juapong Textiles Limited (JTL), is running into technical difficulties and also some manufacturing equipments are also missing, which are acting as an hurdle in the recommencement of the company...

GHANA: Garment industry gets $ 1 mn under PSI
The government under the President’s Special Initiative has allocated the development fund of more than $ 1 million to the garment industry...

GHANA: Cotton farmers commend govt to re-open Juapong Textiles Factory
The Cotton Farmers' Association of Ghana has commended the government for its decision to re-open the Juapong Textiles Factory...

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