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GIPC’s New Law: Foreign trading companies in danger

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  • Foreigner 10 years ago

    Ghana currently has rules that are not enforced. There are areas/markets in the country where foreigners are not suppose to sell but do. Foreign traders are suppose to invest $300,000 in the country but most get around the ...
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  • Kwame vs. Kofi 10 years ago

    treat the world! That would mean a Ghanaian can not do most works abroad, such as cleaning, taxi driving, petty trade or run his own business without a resident partner. I guess 80% of ghanaians abrod would consequently loose ...
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  • THINK GHANA CHANGE GHANA 10 years ago

    Yes, this has also been the question. That means CHINA, UK, US, CANADA, FRANCE, GERMANY should also now enforce new laws against Ghanaians as well....

  • BRAVEBOY 10 years ago

    Of cause that is the case. Most countries don't allow Ghanaians to do such businesses, they only take advantage. If only we can take advantage of foreigners then I will be cool with take. Actually, we don't need so many forei ...
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  • DAN 10 years ago

    and see if you can live on cocoa and banana & Pineapple....I can see your a sakawa boy! And boy in american english mean SMALL PENIS! Ghana is 50 years behind Nigeria in oil business..Problem is gov in Nigeria otherwise they ...
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  • BRAVEBOY 10 years ago

    I wish my people can read your stupidity and laugh. If Ghana was as rich as Nigeria, we would have fully financed your economy just to spare us the shame on the world scene. Sad country. Hopeless, no direction country full of ...
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  • Kwame vs. Kofi 10 years ago

    into the European Union, before starting a Business!! COOL!

  • Justman 10 years ago

    IF IT IS TRUE THEN IT IS JUST LIKE NPP TARGETING CERTAIN POLLING STATIONS WHERE THEY DID NOT WIN BUT DO NOT WANT ANYBODY TO TOUCH WHERE THEY WON.

  • BRAVEBOY 10 years ago

    Sad your tiny brain can not even understand common economics. Leave the politics out of this.

  • Banda Germany 10 years ago

    my little contributions to what Mrs Mawuena trebarh, presented to parlament on the 15-3-2013, on foreign trading in Danger, we all in Danger not only the foreigners, when are we as Ghanians going to look for our selfs rather ...
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  • felix 10 years ago

    this is so far so good. this is how China did to become powerful in business now.

  • Justman 10 years ago

    YOU GHANAIANS ARE VERY LAZY & CORRUPT. YOU LIKE THE EASY WAY OUT.YOU CANNOT COMPARE YOUSELVES TO THE HARD WORK, SELF SACRIFICE OF CHINESE.WE DO NOT HAVE THE X'TER TO DEVELOP THE COUNTRY FROM WITHIN.ALL OF YOU ARE THIEVES.JUST ...
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  • Earl jones 10 years ago

    This is standard practice even in the UK and US. This should be fast tracked to bring Ghana at par with the rest the world. Buying and selling by foreigners will only serve to increase revenue leakage and disempower local ent ...
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  • HOSE 10 years ago

    MAKE SURE IS ENFORCED NOT JUST PAPER, AGAIN MAKE SURE AUTHORITIES ENFORCE AND CHECK PEOPLE WHO DON'T COMPLY AND PUNISH NOT JUST A SLAP ELSE THE WHOLE COUNTRY WILL BE RUN OVER BY THESE FOREIGNER WHO DON'T EVEN USE GHANAIAN CUR ...
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  • Tommy 10 years ago

    As much as the interest of the Ghanaian is key in these discussions we should not forget of shortages and price hikes. Shooting down foreigners with laws to disenable them from competing is not the solution. The Ghanaian was ...
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  • LEE 10 years ago

    SHORTAGES ON WHAT, HAVE BEEN TO GHANA LATELY MY FRIEND. CHINESE ARE BRINGING THEIR PRODUCTS BY THEMSELVES WHICH GHANAIANS USE GO THERE AND BRING THEM. CHEAP PRODUCTS SUBSTANDARD FAR LESS CHEAP PRODUCTS THAN BEING SHIP TO US, ...
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  • BRAVEBOY 10 years ago

    Are you a Nigerian Idiot. There were Banks in Ghana before all the corrupt ones emerged. Impunity. How many Ghanaian Banks do you have in Nigeria. You insult us for our generosity.

  • Tommy 10 years ago

    Braveboy, what point are you trying to make? I just gave an example. I'm a Ghanaian and I've not heard that we're being bared from operating banks in Nigeria or any other business venture with such distasteful laws. We need t ...
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  • BRAVEBOY 10 years ago

    WE CAN CREATE THE SAME COMPETITION AMONG OUR PEOPLE. I AM NOT AGAINST TARGETING FOREIGN INVESTMENT, BUT REMEMBER GHANAIANS MUST ENJOY THE FIRST FRUIT OF THEIR LAND. THE RESOURCES WILL NOT BE THERE FOREVER. WE MUST BE WISE IN ...
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  • BRAVEBOY 10 years ago

    ANY BUSINESS PERSON WHO COMES TO GHANA HAS ONE OBJECTIVE, PROFIT AND PROFIT AT THE MAXIMUM. IT IS A HUMAN INSTINCT. COMPETITION DOES NOT MEAN BEING STUPID. GO TO THE USA, THEY WOULD NOT EVEN SELL AN OLD SPACE SHUTTLE TO A RIC ...
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  • Tommy 10 years ago

    USA economically can do without the Saudi guy, but Ghana can't. Truth is, we are economically dependent on the foreign investors.

  • Tommy 10 years ago

    Braveboy, for instance look at what we mean by local content, the law states that certain percentage of the purchases of some of these mining companies must be sourced locally, however, what is being sourced were also importe ...
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  • BRAVEBOY 10 years ago

    TOMMY WHATEVER, WE CHOOSE TO RUN OUR COUNTRY THE WAY WE THINK BEST. DON'T INSULT OUR GENEROSITY. AFTER ALL, THERE'S LIBERIA, ETHIOPIA ETC. THOSE COMPANIES CAN PACK THEIR BAGS AND LEAVE. WHY CONTEST A LAW THAT WILL NOT FAVOUR ...
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  • LEE 10 years ago

    THESE LAWS ARE GLOBALLY IN LINE DOESN'T MATTER WHICH COUNTRY WHETHER US, CANADA, AUSTRALIA, CHINA, INDIA, SOUTH AFRICA. SOONER THE BETTER IT BEEN SO LONG SOME OF THESE LAWS GET REVISITED FOR ALL THESE COMPANIES TROOPING INTO ...
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  • zion 10 years ago

    good one there! Taking care of our inheritance.

  • H A Ibrahim 10 years ago

    I think this Law is the best Law Ghana has ever enacted so far in the history of the country so I strongly support it