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NTB Type
Category 1. Government participation in trade & restrictive practices tolerated by governments
1.1. Export subsidies
1.2. Government monopoly in export/import
1.3. State subsidies, procurement, trading, state ownership
1.4. Preference given to domestic bidders/suppliers
1.5. Requirement for counter trade
1.6. Domestic assistance programmes for companies
1.7. Discriminatory or flawed government procurement policies
1.8. Import bans
1.9. Determination of eligibility of an exporting country by the importing country
1.10. Determination of eligibility of an exporting establishment (firm, company) by the importing country
1.11. Occupational safety and health regulation
1.12. Multiplicity and Controls of Foreign exchange market
1.13. "Buy national" policy
1.14. Lack of coordination between government institutions
1.15. Other
Category 2. Customs and administrative entry procedures
2.1. Government imposing antidumping duties
2.2. Arbitrary customs classification
2.3. Issues related to the rules of origin
2.4. Import licensing
2.5. Decreed customs surcharges
2.6. Additional taxes and other charges
2.7. International taxes and charges levied on imports and other tariff measures
2.8. Lengthy and costly customs clearance procedures
2.9. Issues related to transit fees
2.10. Inadequate or unreasonable customs procedures and charges
2.11. Lack of control in Customs infrastructure
2.12. Lack of capacity of Customs officers
2.13. Issues related to Pre-Shipment Inspections
2.14. Other
Category 3. Technical barriers to trade (TBT)
Category 4. Sanitary & phyto-sanitary (SPS) measures
Category 5. Specific limitations
5.1. Quantitative restrictions
5.2. Exchange controls
5.3. Export taxes
5.4. Quotas
5.5. Import licensing requirements
5.6. Proportion restrictions of foreign to domestic goods (local content requirement)
5.7. Minimum import price limits
5.8. Embargoes
5.9. Non-automatic licensing
5.10. Prohibitions
5.11. Quantitative safeguard measures
5.12. Export restraint arrangements
5.13. Other quantity control measures
5.14. Restrictive licenses
5.15. Other
Category 6. Charges on imports
6.1. Prior import deposits and subsidies
6.2. Administrative fees
6.3. Special supplementary duties
6.4. Import credit discriminations
6.5. Variable levies
6.6. Border taxes
6.7. Other
Category 7. Other procedural problems
7.1. Arbitrariness
7.2. Discrimination
7.3. Corruption
7.4. Costly procedures
7.5. Lengthy procedures
7.6. Lack of information on procedures (or changes thereof)
7.7. Complex variety of documentation required
7.8. Consular and Immigration Issues
7.9. Inadequate trade related infrastructure
7.10. Other
Category 8. Transport, Clearing and Forwarding
8.1. Government Policy and regulations
8.2. Administrative (Border Operating Hours, delays at border posts, etc.)
8.3. Immigration requirements (Visa, travel permit)
8.4. Transport related corruption
8.5. Infrastructure (Air, Port, Rail, Road, Border Posts,)
8.6. Vehicle standards
8.7. Costly Road user charges /fees
8.8. Issues related to transit
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NTB-000-037
8.4. Transport related corruption
2017-09-27
Ghana: Tamale South
Burkina Faso
Resolved
2017-09-27
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Complaint:
Driver was stopped at the Tamale check point. After checking the papers, the police insisted that the driver pays 5gh even though there was no problem with his papers.
NTB-000-039
7.6. Lack of information on procedures (or changes thereof)
2017-09-27
Ghana: Tamale South
Burkina Faso
Resolved
2017-09-27
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Complaint:
Driver was stopped at the checkpoint. After checking the papers, the police insisted that the driver pays 5gh even though there was no problem with his papers.
NTB-000-057
7.6. Lack of information on procedures (or changes thereof)
2017-09-23
Ghana: Tema
Burkina Faso
Resolved
2017-09-23
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Complaint:
Driver called after an accident to know the procedures to follow.
NTB-000-038
7.6. Lack of information on procedures (or changes thereof)
2017-09-20
Ghana: Tamale South
Burkina Faso
Resolved
2017-09-20
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Complaint:
Driver was stopped and required to present a weighing certificate from Djama. Since they did not have the certificate but had a stamp of the Djama weighbridge, the police insisted that they pay some money.
NTB-000-023
2.14. Other
2017-09-04
Ghana: Porko after Djama check point
Ghana
Resolved
2017-09-08
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Complaint:
The police requires of truck drivers transiting goods from Tema port to Burkina Faso to provide weighing documents from every weighing point whiles the latter (drivers) also claim that after weighing at the port and the motorway, they just have to present these documents to weighing points of Kumasi and Djama for stamp..
Resolution status note:
This complaint has been resolved after notifying the complainant of the role of the police on the corridor in terms of checks.
Other drivers will also be educated on the matter during the upcoming road caravan organized by Borderless Alliance in Collaboration with Ghana Shippers' Authority.
NTB-000-033
8.3. Immigration requirements (Visa, travel permit)
2017-08-31
Ghana: Tema
Burkina Faso
Resolved
2017-08-31
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Complaint:
Driver was stopped at the exit of Techiman. His licence and papers were checked and were found to be correct. However the driver was detained for about 1 hour before the officer asked him to pay money.
NTB-000-034
8.4. Transport related corruption
2017-08-31
Niger:
Burkina Faso
Resolved
2017-08-31
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Complaint:
Police stopped driver and demanded money, even though the driver had the weighing papers from the motoway, duly stamped at Kumasi and at Djama.
NTB-000-030
7.6. Lack of information on procedures (or changes thereof)
2017-08-29
Ghana: Abidjan, RCI
Burkina Faso
Resolved
2017-08-29
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Complaint:
Driver was detained at the entrance to Accra for not fastening seat belt. As he was speaking french the Police could not understand him.
Resolution status note:
BA est intervenue et a expliqué aux agents de police au poste que ce n'était qu'un problème de barrière de la langue et leur a demandé de permettre au conducteur de continuer son voyage
Le conducteur a été informé des attitudes à adopter lorsqu'il est arrêté par la police et libéré plus tard sans payer d'argent.
NTB-000-032
7.6. Lack of information on procedures (or changes thereof)
2017-08-29
Ghana: Accra
Burkina Faso
Resolved
2017-08-29
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Complaint:
Driver was detained at the entrance to Accra for not fastening seat belt. As he was speaking french the Police could not understand him.
NTB-000-052
8.4. Transport related corruption
2017-08-11
Ghana: Accra
Burkina Faso
Resolved
2017-08-11
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Complaint:
Driver transporting cows was stopped just before Babator and asked to pay an amoutof money before being allowed to continue. He claimed they were also asked to pay an amount of 2,500.00 gh at the Paga border.
NTB-000-053
8.4. Transport related corruption
2017-08-11
Ghana: Tema
Burkina Faso
Resolved
2017-08-11
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Complaint:
The driver was asked to pay 5gh even though his papers were correct.
NTB-000-051
7.6. Lack of information on procedures (or changes thereof)
2017-07-11
Ghana: Tema
Burkina Faso
Resolved
2017-07-11
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Complaint:
Driver was asked to pay 100gh because Jema weigh bridge operators stamped on his weighing certificate.
NTB-000-040
7.6. Lack of information on procedures (or changes thereof)
2017-07-10
Ghana: Abor
Burkina Faso
Resolved
2017-07-10
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Complaint:
Driver called Focal point after an accident and was directed to the Assin Fosu police station to report the inciddence after being given the telephone number of the ECOWAS Brown Card secretariat.
NTB-000-050
8.4. Transport related corruption
2017-06-11
Ghana: Paga
Burkina Faso
Resolved
2017-06-11
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Complaint:
The driver called because they were about 27 trucks stopped at the border from the previous day. They gave their papers to customs who handed them to the goro boys. The goro boys were asking the drivers to pay 10 000F CFA per truck.
NTB-000-047
8.4. Transport related corruption
2017-05-11
Ghana: Komantse
Burkina Faso
Resolved
2017-05-11
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Complaint:
This driver was stopped and whilst parking an officer asked him to continue. As the driver left, the police later followed him and arrested him, accusing him of "fail to stop" and took the driver to the police station.
NTB-000-048
8.4. Transport related corruption
2017-05-11
Ghana: Tamale South
Burkina Faso
Resolved
2017-05-11
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Complaint:
Driver was stopped at the entrance to Tamale and was asked to pay 5gh even though his papers were correct
NTB-000-049
8.4. Transport related corruption
2017-05-11
Ghana: Abor
Burkina Faso
Resolved
2017-05-11
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Complaint:
Driver was stopped at the Buipe exit and asked to pay 5gh without any reason
NTB-000-036
7.6. Lack of information on procedures (or changes thereof)
2017-05-09
Mali:
Burkina Faso
Resolved
2017-05-09
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Complaint:
Driver was stopped and required to provide weighing papers from Kumasi and Djama, otherwise to pay an amoount of money
NTB-000-025
8.2. Administrative (Border Operating Hours, delays at border posts, etc.)
2017-04-30
Ghana: Aflao
Ghana
Resolved
2017-08-05
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Complaint:
Trucks arriving at Aflao after 10pm are not being allowed to park in the yard causing serious congestion along the main roads leading up to the border.
Resolution status note:
The opening of the Ghana/Togo Border on the 5th August 2017 for 24 hours has resolved the problem of congestion and trucks are allowed to park in the Truck Holding Bay after 10 pm. The last customs check point before Aflao which hitherto before the 5th August 2017 directive was being closed after 10 pm was also opened for the movement of trucks conveying merchandise to be parked at the Truck Holding Bay.
L'ouverture de la frontière entre le Ghana et le Togo le 5 août 2017 pour 24 heures, le problème de la congestion a été résolu et les camions sont autorisés à se garer dans la baie de Truck Holding après 22 heures. Le dernier point de contrôle des douanes avant Aflao qui, avant la directive du 5 août 2017, était fermé après 22 heures, a également été ouvert permettant aux camions transportant des marchandises à être garées à la baie de stationnement des camions.
NTB-000-046
8.8. Issues related to transit
2017-04-11
Ghana: Paga
Burkina Faso
Resolved
2017-04-11
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Complaint:
The driver called because he was asked by a customs officer to hand his papers over to the 'goro boys' whilst there was a directive which ordered a stop to the activities ofthese goro boys
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