The Progressive Scraps Dealers Association of Ghana (PROSDAG), an association of scraps dealers based in Kumasi, has appealed to the government and the Ministry of Trade and Industry to as a matter of urgency, lift the ban on scraps export, to make the industry more competitive.
The association had also called on the government to intervene to ensure mutual respect in the trade relations between them and steel companies in order to help find solutions to all the nagging issues affecting the industry to enable scrap dealers to play their rightful role in national development.
These were contained in a petition addressed to the Minister of Trade and Industry and read at a press conference in Kumasi on Tuesday, by Mr Nasiru Mohammed, Secretary of the Association.
According to him, the scraps dealership industry was the fulcrum and the bedrock of the steel industry in Ghana.
However, while the steel industry in the country, which was fed by the scraps dealership was globally competitive, in terms of pricing regime and export, pricing of scraps and the decision to buy or withhold purchases of scraps and payments, were solely the decision of steel companies.
