{"id":729227,"date":"2019-10-23T05:20:12","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T05:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/10\/23\/govt-to-seize-textiles-without-incoming-textile-stamp\/"},"modified":"2019-10-23T05:20:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-23T05:20:12","slug":"govt-to-seize-textiles-without-incoming-textile-stamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/10\/23\/govt-to-seize-textiles-without-incoming-textile-stamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov\u2019t to seize textiles without incoming &#8216;textile stamp&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Business News of Wednesday, 23 October 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2019-10-23<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/98973315.295.jpg\" alt=\"Textile Workers9\" title=\"Textile Workers9\" width=\"295\" height=\"184\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>File photo<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Deputy Trades Minister, Carlos Ahenkorah has revealed government\u2019s plans to clamp down on textiles that get onto the market illegally.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery textile that gets onto the shelves must have a textile stamp that would be coded\u2026\u201d he told Evans Mensah on PM Express on JoyNews on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the legislator, the government intends to get a law passed in Parliament to back this policy.<\/p>\n<p>The policy, he said is a way of \u201cprotecting the local market, we don\u2019t go and close borders like Nigeria has done,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Coalition of Textile Workers has constantly petitioned the government to clamp down pirated textiles on the Ghanaian market.<\/p>\n<p>The workers say the presence of these substandard products on the markets is collapsing their businesses.<\/p>\n<p>The workers have asked the authorities to extend the anti-pirated textiles task force from the ports to the markets.<\/p>\n<p>The workers have asked also for the task force to be sent to the market instead of just restricting their work to the ports and borders.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business News of Wednesday, 23 October 2019 Source: Myjoyonline.com 2019-10-23 File photo Deputy Trades Minister, Carlos Ahenkorah has revealed government\u2019s plans to clamp down on textiles that get onto the market illegally. \u201cEvery textile that gets onto the shelves must have a textile stamp that would be coded\u2026\u201d he told Evans Mensah on PM Express [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":729228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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