Egypt: African non-Arab countries acquire 11% of the value of food exports

Mai Khairy, Executive Director of the Food Industry Export Council, said that the African market is one of the important markets that the Council focuses on to develop the sector's exports, noting that non-Arab African countries account for 11-12% of the sector’s total exports, with a value of about $ 490 million annually. The electronic symposium organized by the Council under the title "On COMESA between Reality and Application", that the total exports of the food sectors worldwide reach about $ 3 billion annually, with the Arab countries acquiring 56% of it, and the European countries about 13%. Food products that are exported from Egypt are (concentrates - soft drinks - flour - and mill products - oils except olive oil - chocolate - frozen strawberries) and mentioned that the food commodities that are exported from Egypt to African countries include (pasta - sugar - yeasts - Chocolate - tobacco and other products) and about the most important non-Arab African countries that ...