26.3% increase in trade exchange bet. Egypt, Nile Basin countries

CAIRO – 21 November 2021: Trade exchange between Egypt and the Nile Basin countries during the first nine months of 2021, by 26.3 percent, on an annual basis, data from the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) showed.

CAPMAS indicated, in a statement, Sunday that the value of Egypt's exports to the Nile Basin countries recorded $1.11 billion during the period from January to the end of September 2021, compared to $835 million over the same period last year, with an increase of 33.7 percent.

The highest values ​​were concentrated in five African countries, accounting for 94.7 percent of the total of this bloc. The ranking of countries was as follows:

- Sudan: The value of exports amounted to $588 million, or 52.7 percent of the total bloc.

- Kenya The value of exports amounted to $284 million, or 25.4 percent of the total bloc.

-Ethiopia, the value of exports amounted to $80 million, representing 7.1 percent of the total bloc.

- Uganda The value of exports amounted to $68 million, or 6.1 percent of the total bloc.

- Tanzania: The value of exports reached $37 million, representing 3.3 percent of the total bloc.

The most important commodities exported were plastics and their products, with a value of exports reaching $154 million, or 13.8 percent of the total goods, sugar and its products at $120 million, representing 10.8 percent of the total commodities, and salt, sulfur, earth, stones and cement, the value of exports ($73 million), representing 6.6 percent of the total goods.

On the other hand, imports from the Nile Basin countries amounted to $497 million during the period from January to the end of September 2021, compared to $442 million for the same period in the previous year.

The highest values ​​were concentrated in five African countries with a percentage of 99.1 percent of the total of this bloc, and the order of the countries was as follows:

- Sudan: The value of imports amounted to $258 million, representing 51.8 percent of the total bloc.

Kenya's imports amounted to $173 million, representing 34.8 percent of the total bloc.

- Congo, the value of imports amounted to $47 million, or 9.4 percent of the total bloc.

- Uganda The value of imports amounted to $10 million, or 2.0 percent of the total bloc.

- Ethiopia, the value of imports amounted to $6 million, representing 1.1 percent of the total bloc.

The ranking of the most important imported commodities was coffee, tea, mate and spices, with imports worth $157 million, or 31.6 percent of the total commodities, live animals, with imports amounting to $143 million, or 28.8 percent of the total commodities, and grains, oil fruits, medicinal plants and fodder, with imports worth $63 million, or 12.7 percent of the total goods.