Egypt · Encyclopedia

🌍 Country profile · curated

Trade landscape · Egypt

Coverage: 2 cities · 1 tier-1 · 1 tier-2

↗️ India sell mandates

• Pharma generics (Egypt large generic market)
• IT services (Cairo tech scene growing)
• Textiles & cotton fabrics
• Engineering goods for infrastructure
• Indian goods entry via Alexandria for Egyptian distribution
• Textile machinery

↙️ India buy mandates

• Egyptian cotton (highest quality; India yarn blending)
• Petroleum products (Suez Canal zone)
• Chemicals
• Agricultural products
• Egyptian cotton bales
• Petroleum products
• Aluminium (Egypt Aluminium)

🌐 Multilateral routes

• India→Cairo→North Africa (Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Algeria)
• India→Cairo→Middle East (Jordan, Lebanon, Syria)
• Suez Canal — critical India→EU shipping route
• India→Alexandria→Mediterranean Europe (alternative to Rotterdam)
• India→Alexandria→Libya, Tunisia distribution

🌍 Bilateral overview · India ↔ Egypt

🛳️ Corridors · 1 tracked

Trade corridors touching Egypt

• 🇮🇳 🇪🇬 India-Egypt Trade Corridor
  $8.5B trade

🏛️ Bloc memberships · 4

Trade blocs & groupings

• OIC
• BRICS+
• Arab League
• COMESA

📜 FTAs · 3 relevant

FTAs covering Egypt

• 🇪🇺 🇪🇬 EU-Egypt AA
  In Force ✅ · USD 35B · in force 2004
• 🇨🇭 🇪🇬 EFTA-Egypt
  In Force ✅ · USD 4B · in force 2007

🏛️ Trade bodies · 1 relevant

Trade bodies — Egypt

• Egyptian General Authority for Investment (GAFI)

  Egyptian government body promoting foreign investment.

  🌐 investinegypt.gov.eg · ✉️ info@gafi.gov.eg

Peer countrys

• Afghanistan
• Albania
• Algeria
• Angola
• Argentina
• Armenia
• Australia
• Austria