The Customs Excise and Preventive Service (CEPS) is the Government of Ghana agency responsible for the monitoring, regulation and inspection of exports into Ghana.

In 1986, the Flight Lieutenant Rawlings government made the service autonomous backed by the PNDC Law 144.

[1] The service is mandated to collect Import and export duty tax, petroleum tax and import excise.

It promotes the protection of revenue through the prevention of smuggling of goods across Ghana's borders.

Import and export restrictions and prohibitions are supervised by the service.