Egypt’s non-oil commodity exports hike 40% in 9 months: CAPMAS

Egypt’s non-oil commodity exports hike 40% in 9 months: CAPMAS

ArabFinance : Egypt’s non-oil commodity exports jumped 40% during the first nine months of 2021, recording $29.7 billion when compared to $21.2 billion in the same period of 2020, according to recent divs by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS). Egypt’s imports in the same time period also increased to $61 billion, a 16% increase from the $52.4 billion recorded in 2020. According to the statement, the G20’s countries topped Egypt’s exports to international blocs with the sum of all transactions valued at $14.1 billion, followed by EU states with exports hitting $9.6 billion. var width=document.documentElement.clientWidth;if(width>=320&&width<728){}; googletag.cmd.push(function(){try{var d=document.documentElement.clientWidth;var a;var c="/21857811890/en.zcom/";var b;if(d>=320&&d<728){a=[300,250];b=["mobile_mr_story"]}else{a=[300,250];b=["MR_Story"]}var h="MR_Story";var g=googletag.defineSlot("/21857811890/en.zcom/",a,"div-gpt-ad-MR_Story").setTargeting("type",b).addService(googletag.pubads());gptAdSlots.push(g);if(h!="MR_Story"){googletag.pubads().collapseEmptyDivs(true,true)}googletag.pubads().enableSingleRequest();googletag.enableServices();if((h=="PSB_Left")||(h=="mobile_psb_left")||(h=="PSB_Top")||(h=="mobile_psb_top")||(h=="PSB_Bottom")||(h=="mobile_psb_bottom")||(h=="PSB_Middle")||(h=="mobile_psb_middle")||(h=="leaderboard_home")||(h=="leaderboard_bottom_home")||(h=="mobile_leaderboard_home")||(h=="mobile_leaderboard_bottom_home")){setInterval(function(){googletag.pubads().refresh([g])},240000)}}catch(f){console.log("Error loading Ad banner "+h)}}); try{googletag.cmd.push(function(){googletag.display("div-gpt-ad-MR_Story")})}catch(e){console.log("Error displaying Ad banner "+bannerName)}; However, Arab states came in third place with total exports recording $7.8 billion, while the G7 countries ranked fourth with a total trade value of $6.3 billion. African Union countries ranked fifth with exports of $4 billion, followed by COMESA countries recording $2.2 billion in exports. The Nile Basin’s countries were at the bottom with exports valued at $1.1 billion. The statement revealed that Egypt imported 16% of commodities from China, 8% from Saudi Arabia, 7% from the US, 5% from Germany, 4% from Turkey,