General Organization for Import and Export Control
The report shows a 4.7 percent decrease in non-petroleum exports which hit $16.752 billion during the same period last year.
Egypt's imports declined in eight sectors, most prominently in the furniture sector whose imports lessened to $56 million in June 2019, compared to $127 million in June 2018.
The GOEIC said kerosene came second in the top 20 list followed by Polypropylene.
Exports of engineering and electronic commodities increased by 10 percent from January to November 2017.
GOEIC’s monthly report revealed that exports increased month-on-month (m-o-m) to reach $1.805 billion in November 2017 vs. $1.785 billion in November 2016.
Egypt’s non-petroleum imports shaved off 23 percent in the first seven months of 2017 to stand at dlrs 30.3 billion against dlrs 39.4 billion last year.