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The once-vibrant Ghanaian textile industry is at a cross-road due to pirated textiles smuggled into the country despite the government’s constant efforts to stop piracy in the country. It’s impacting the operations of textile companies as cheap pirated textiles make original textile designs manufactured in Ghana relatively expensive.

There were about 20 textile companies which employed about 25,000 in the 1980s. But currently there is a remnant of just four textile companies employing fewer than 2,000 people, battling to stay in business amid a myriad of challenges.

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The joint anti-pirate textile task force set up by the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOTI) to curb textile smuggling and pirated designs into the country. The team comprise the Deputy Trade Minister, Murtala Mohammed, and members of the joint task force drawn from textile producers, vendors, and officials of MOTI, seized pirated textiles at various border entry points and markets in the country.

The team has destroyed a total of 3,500 pieces of pirated Ghanaian textile designs it seized at the Kpone land fill site this week.

Related Keywords: Ghanaian textile industry, Haruna Iddrisu, out-going trade and industry minister, priated textile design, Task force

Ghanaian out-going trade and industry minister, Haruna Iddrisu, has decided to reconstitute a Task Force on the Seizure of Pirated Ghanaian Textile Designs to combat recent negative effects faced by the textile industry due to trade in pirated textile designs.
 
Apart from this, another reason is the decline of Ghana’s textile workforce. The number of workers in the country’s garment industry has dropped from 30,000 in the 1980s and early 1990s to 3,000 presently.
 

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After several calls on government to tackle the widespread pirating of Ghanaian textile designs, Ghana is likely to work closely with the Chinese government as part of a new strategy to combat the importation of pirated Ghanaian textiles from China at the bilateral level.
 

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The textile industry in Ghana is facing unfair competition presently from outsiders through the importation of cheap inferior textiles onto the Ghanaian market. Akosombo Textiles Ltd (ATL), textile manufacturing company in Ghana who is now holding a workforce of 1,250 is on a verge of collapse due to cheap imports from Asia