5 shocking items Ghana imports

The heavy reliance on imported goods and the taste for foreign goods have also pushed inflation to a record high and put so much pressure on the cedi.

However, some items the country imports are a shock to many since these items could be produced in Ghana.

Here are five of these items:

1. Onions

2. Post stamps

3. Toothpick

4. Old Newspapers

5. Old Braziers

Meanwhile, as of September 2022, these were Ghana’s top 10 imports.

1. Motor Vehicles & Parts $1,691,759,690

2. Industrial Machinery $1,360,270,541

3. Electrical Machinery $685,024,806

4. Cereals $522,913,947

5. Plastics $499,851,680

6. Iron & Steel Articles $391,476,023

7. Natural Minerals & Stone $373,825,026

8. Iron & Steel $359,244,506

9. Oil & Mineral Fuels $299,894,944

10. Wood $297,464,268

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