Export to EU not an easy walk

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HONESTY 11 years ago

All you know is to give yours away as if they would also make it easy for you. Protect your own and use it as a leverage.

All you know is to give yours away as if they would also make it easy for you. Protect your own and use it as a leverage.
Conventional Youth 11 years ago

Any product, irrespective of the country of origin, must comply with specific technical requirements -- saying these requirements are necessary because EU consumers demand that the products are safe and do not compromise thei ...
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Any product, irrespective of the country of origin, must comply with specific technical requirements -- saying these requirements are necessary because EU consumers demand that the products are safe and do not compromise their health or cause environmental damage during production, use and waste stages.

To deal with these issues, the EU has supported the Trade Related Assistance and Quality-Enabling Programme with €15million to among others establish a national accreditation body in order to provide Ghanaian and West African laboratories with a local and affordable option for obtaining accreditation of ISO standards. This is expected to lower the costs of compliance for local producers.

Negotiation of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs), which concluded in June this year between the ECOWAS region and the EU, is set to provide one of the biggest markets globally with over 500million consumers.