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The smuggling of foreign textiles into the Ghanaian market without payment of any tax has made their prices cheaper than the locally-manufactured ones. Mr Justice Asiedu Boateng, Finance and Administration Manager of Akosombo Textiles Limited said that the influx of counterfeit textiles and the incessant smuggling of pirated textile products into the country had taken over the Ghanaian market, which has affected production of the textile industry.
