President John Mahama has assured that his administration will consult widely and work with the Federation of Association of Ghanaian exporters in the implementation of the National Export Development Strategy.
The National Export Development Strategy is a national export development blueprint for significantly increasing Non-traditional Export revenue within 10 years, with total revenue of US$25.3billion by 2029.
According to President Mahama, the Association of Ghanaian Exporters has a critical role in achieving these feet. At the visit of the leadership of the Federation of the Association of Ghanaian exporters at the Presidency on Tuesday, June 3, 2025, President Mahama indicated that his administration will give the association a pride of place.
“Your association is so critical to Ghana’s economy. you are the ones who bring the dollars to the economy. And so, we have to give you pride of place in terms of facilitating your businesses” he said.
And that “we will work together to implement national export development strategy so that Ghana can become a net exporter instead of an importer”.
President Mahama further assured that government will work assiduously in prudently making the economy to ease the cost of doing business. He maintains that the appreciation of the cedi against major trading currencies is a sign of the economy turning around corner.
“We presented the budget in March and the budget was meant to make a correction of a lot of things that have gone wrong in the past. And so, trying to bring the macroeconomy back on track, reversing the 3.9 negative primary balance to a positive 1.5 primary balance by the end of the year. This has been one of the main target of the budget so its rained in a lot of government expenditure in order that we can bring the deficit down and create an environment that is conducive to business” he said.
President Mahama is however urging for improved standards of the product exported. “We have to look at the issue of stands in exporting our products and so strengthening the Ghana standards authority, in order that our products are safe” he admonished
