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# Intelligence: Food & Beverage Import in Ghana

## Industry Context

- **Payment pressure:** Perishability creates urgency; Demurrage extremely costly for fresh goods

- **Operational control:** container tracking for demurrage avoidance; Fast EUR payments via SEPA

## Country Context

- **Use case:** Pay Ghanaian suppliers for cocoa, gold, agricultural products, textiles

- **Settlement:** T+0 (2.3s avg within Unicorn network)

- **Banking:** **IBAN** (International Bank Account Number (SEPA))

- **Regulatory:** Bank of Ghana foreign exchange regulations; Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) tax compliance

## Key Industries in Country

- Agriculture

- Cocoa Export

- Gold Mining

- Textiles

- Food Processing