Guinea-Bissau plans a November financing round table for its cashew industry, covering processing, storage and transport, after the prime minister appointed an organizing committee on September 9, Bissau newspaper O Democrata reported. Under the 2026 budget, raw cashew exports face a 9% special tax on a reference price of $1,050 per metric ton, plus a 1% fee.
Analysis: Cashew accounted for about 90% of Guinea-Bissau's goods exports in 2025, worth 151.3bn FCFA (€231mn), IMF figures show. At the reference price, the export tax and fee total about $105 per ton, equivalent to roughly $24mn on the 230,000 tons shipped by September 22, by our calculation. Processors, warehouse operators and their lenders are the businesses most directly affected by the proposed funding drive. The organizing committee has not announced a November date or the amount of financing it aims to raise.
Source: Ministério das Finanças da Guiné-Bissau, Orçamento Geral do Estado para 2026 – Lei do Orçamento, 2026; Lusa (Portuguese news agency), republished by Forbes África Lusófona and aman-alliance.org, Government price-setting announcement, 10 Mar 2026 (reported by Forbes África Lusófona / Lusa), 2026 campaign; Direction générale du Trésor, Service économique régional d'Abidjan / SE Dakar, DG Trésor, Brèves économiques Afrique de l'Ouest n°644 (25 Sep 2026), citing Ministério do Comércio e Indústria, 2026 campaign to 22 Sep; International Monetary Fund, IMF Country Report No. 26/140, 2025