Sponsor: Ministry of Trade, Agribusiness and Industry
Period of Consultations: Thu April 10, 2025 to Thu July 31, 2025
The Ministry of Trade, Agribusiness and Industry, in collaboration with key government stakeholders, is currently assessing the potential effect of the recently imposed 10% tariff on Ghanaian exports to the United States.
The USA announced on 2nd April 2025 the imposition of 10% universal tariff, effective April 5, 2025, covering imports from all countries including Ghana into the United States. However, goods that are on transit as of the date are exempt from the announced tariffs.
In addition, reciprocal tariffs were also imposed on over 50 countries with rates ranging from 11% to 50%, effective April 9, 2025. According to the Executive Order, the tariffs are being imposed pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977 (IEEPA) due to economic and national security implications of the country’s global trade deficits.
The Executive Order specifically exempts certain products from the universal and reciprocal tariffs. These products include copper, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors, lumber articles, energy and energy products, and certain critical minerals. The US market provides a ready- made complementary market destination for several important priority export products from Ghana, such as apparel, cocoa derivatives, gold jewellery, shea butter, horticulture products including root crops (Yam), fruits, vegetables, cashew, etc.
Key Provisions / Thematic Areas
List of key/ major export products to be affected by the tariff
- Cocoa beans, whole or broken, raw or roasted
- Cocoa paste, not defatted
- Refined lead, unwrought
- Cocoa paste, wholly or partly defatted
- Men's or boys' shirts, knitted or crocheted, of manmade fibers, nesoi
- Fresh or chilled yams (Dioscorea spp.), whether or not sliced or in the form of pellets
- Cocoa powder, not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter
- Cocoa butter, fat and oil
- Soybeans, whether or not broken, other than seed
- Sweaters, pullovers and similar articles, knitted or crocheted, of manmade fibers, nesoi
- Paintings, drawings (o/than of 4906) and pastels, executed entirely by hand, of an age 100 years or less
- Women's or girls' blouses and shirts, knitted or crocheted, of man-made fibers, nesoi
- Oilcake and other solid residues, resulting from the extraction of soybean oil
- Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, crude, testing 25 degrees A.P.I. or more
- Technically specified natural rubber (TSNR), in primary forms
- Natural rubber smoked sheets
- Tropical wood, nesoi, sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, over 6 mm thick
Comments
As part of this process, we are inviting the business community, professional bodies, exporters, business associations, manufacturers, and other relevant stakeholders to provide information, strategies, research papers and any valuable information that will help inform Government’s official position.
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How to respond
This Consultation is Closed
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P.O. MB 47, Ministries, Accra-Ghana
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