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The textile industry in Ghana is increasingly facing competition from cheap copies smuggled in from abroad, especially from China. Ghana has stepped up efforts to halt the smuggling of pirated textiles from China. The quantity of pirated cloth sold cheaply has forced several local manufacturers out of business.

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The mPedigree network, a global leader makes use of mobile and web technologies in securing products against faking, counterfeiting and diversion has introduced a new technology, the Goldkeys Technology to fight against piracy in Ghana’s textile industry.

The Goldkeys technology, is part of a new campaign to end the age-long canker in the local textile industry of Ghana. The new technology will help textile dealers to authenticate original textile products by attaching scratch-labels with code on the packs of product.

Related Keywords: AGOA, Dignity DTRT company, focus on finished products, Ghana textile industry, Ghanaian cotton industry, international market, raw material base

Ghanaian cotton industry which serves as the raw material base, is already receiving an appreciable measure of attention, and so government now plans to extend its focus to finished products.

The government to enable Ghanaian manufacturing companies take advantage of the growing opportunities in the international market is now targeting to increase investment in the textile industry, said President John Dramani Mahama during his familiarization visit to Dignity DTRT company, a garment production company in Accra yesterday.

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Unfair competition from cheap imported pirated goods is collapsing the textile industry in the country. Ministry of Trade and Industry Ghana, on a national movement against trade in pirated Ghanaian textiles is aiming at finding solutions to the major crises faced by the country’s textile industry.

Meanwhile, a member of the task force and the vetting committee on the importation of African Textile Designs, Mr Appiah Donyina, said that the taskforce would embark on various sensitization exercises to educate people on the difference between genuine and pirated textiles.

Related Keywords: Akosombo Textiles, Ghana textile industry, pirated textile

Textile industries in Ghana deteriorate due to influx of pirated textile designs into the country. Akosombo Textiles Limited (ATL) one of the leading fabric companies in the country is on the verge of breaking down, their business has gone down by about 75 percent since 2009, costing the company millions of Ghana cedis. It has affected their cash flow and ability to operate properly. There are people complaining that they don’t supply the market. This is because they are short of working capital.

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Ghana’s textile industry is under threat of collapse due to smuggling activities within the industry. The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MoTI) is to get on a nationwide campaign to educate traders on the dangers of dealing in pirated textiles. The acting Director of Communications of MoTI, Nana Akrasi Sarpong, said that the educational campaign was to expose the traders to the effects of dealing in pirated textiles on Ghana’s textile industry and also prepare their minds for the intended exercise by the task force.