Ghanaian industries would by tomorrow know whether the economy would be opened to goods from Europe without the necessary taxes on them.

Foreign Ministers from Ghana and other West African countries would for the next couple of days be meeting in Ivory Cost to deliberate on the Economic Partnership Agreement and possibly recommend for its approval on behalf of their respective Heads of states.

But ahead of that meeting, Trade Expert, Dr. Yaw Graham says the future of Ghanaian workers and industries would depend largely on the agreement to be reached at Yamoussoukro.

“What they should be doing is looking beyond the laws of aid, looking beyond the laws of tariff benefit for few products to the European market and look at the wider world. Take a generational horizon and plan for it, if they did there will be a lot more opportunity that they’ll see than the way they are now,” he said

Already questions are being raised about the relevance of this meeting because, the Head of the EU delegation to Ghana, Claude Maerten recently disclosed that, the Union  has already reached an  agreement with Ghana on the Pact. 

Meanwhile, Nigeria has decided not to sign the agreement. Joy Business gathered that, the decision was reached at a meeting to collate the views of all  interested parties  in Nigeria.  This means that Nigeria would not accept the decision of ECOWAS to fully sign the Agreement. It is not clear whether Nigeria's stance might influence other West African countries including Ghana.