{"id":1259852,"date":"2022-11-30T04:02:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T04:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/30\/high-import-duties-increasingly-making-business-environment-tough-guta-boss\/"},"modified":"2022-11-30T04:02:34","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T04:02:34","slug":"high-import-duties-increasingly-making-business-environment-tough-guta-boss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/30\/high-import-duties-increasingly-making-business-environment-tough-guta-boss\/","title":{"rendered":"High import duties increasingly making business environment tough &#8211; GUTA boss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"304\"  alt=\"\" title=\"Port_Cargo-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Port_Cargo-1.jpg\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"304\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Port_Cargo-1.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Port_Cargo-1\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>President of the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) Dr Joseph Obeng has lamented the high import duties in the country.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He said the situation is making trading in Ghana extremely difficult.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is increasingly becoming difficult to do business here looking at the duties on goods alone,\u201d Dr. Joseph Obeng said on the Sunrise show on 3FM Tuesday November 29.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Vice President of GUTA Clement Boateng attributed this to high import duties.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the Sunrise show with Alfred Ocansey on 3FM Thursday November 24 ahead of the 2023 budget presentation, Mr Boateng revealed that duties have gone up between hundred and two hundred percent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuties have gone up between hundred and two hundred percent. Prices are going to be high,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>He added \u201cCustomers must brace themselves up for price hikes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Laud Nartey|3news.com|Ghana<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of the Ghana Union of Traders Association (GUTA) Dr Joseph Obeng has lamented the high import duties in the country.\u00a0 He said the situation is making trading in Ghana extremely difficult. \u201cIt is increasingly becoming difficult to do business here looking at the duties on goods alone,\u201d Dr. Joseph Obeng said on the Sunrise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1259853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[566,2009,3588,242,168,2158,6095,12926,5113,3558],"class_list":["post-1259852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-boss","tag-business","tag-duties","tag-environment","tag-guta","tag-high","tag-import","tag-increasingly","tag-making","tag-tough"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1259852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}