Ghana’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has announced that the United States has officially removed the 15% tariff on cocoa and several other agricultural exports from Ghana.
In a statement shared on social media, Ablakwa explained that U.S. officials formally notified Ghana’s Mission in Washington, D.C., after President Donald Trump signed a new Executive Order reversing the tariff, effective November 13, 2025.
“The withdrawal of the tariff applies not only to cocoa but also to a broad range of Ghanaian agricultural goods such as cashew nuts, avocados, bananas, mangoes, oranges, limes, plantains, pineapples, guavas, coconuts, ginger, and various peppers.
Government projections suggest that since Ghana ships around 78,000 metric tonnes of cocoa beans to the U.S. each year at a market price of roughly $5,300 per tonne, the tariff elimination could generate an extra $60 million (about GHS 667 million) in annual revenue.”
The decision effectively overturns a policy from the Trump administration that had significantly increased the cost of exporting Ghanaian cocoa to the U.S. market.
