Egypt: The increase in the amount of wheat imports of 299 million and 334 thousand dollars in 2023

Egypt’s wheat imports witnessed a noticeable increase from the beginning of the current year 2023 until last July, according to data from the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics. The total value of wheat imports amounted to about two billion and 96 million dollars, while it was about one billion and 796 million dollars in the same period of the previous year 2022. An increase of about 299 million and 334 thousand dollars. Wheat imports are considered among the list of the most important Egyptian imports of raw materials during that period of the year, and the value of their total imports declined to 5 billion and 976 million dollars in the period from January to July of the current year 2023, compared to about 7 billion and 376 million dollars in the same period of the year. 2022, with a decrease of one billion and 399 million dollars. The list of the most important declines in raw material imports included soybean imports, which recorded about 963 ...