Cairo – Mubasher: The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) on Monday said that the value of Egypt’s exports to the Nile Basin countries surged 37.1% to EGP 11.3 billion in 2016 from EGP 2.8 billion in 2015.
Meanwhile, Egypt’s imports from the Nile Basin countries increased 43.5% to EGP 3.9 billion last year, versus EGP 2.7 billion in 2015, CAPMAS added in its annual bulletin.
Egypt’s exports to Sudan grew 33.9% to EGP 5.6 billion in 2016, topping the Nile Basin countries’ export list, versus EGP 4.2 billion in 2015, according to the report.
Kenya ranked second with a 46.1% rise at EGP 2.7 billion in 2016, while it ranked first at the level of imports with a 42% growth at EGP 3 billion.
On 6 September 2017, the CAPMAS posted that total value of Egypt’s foreign trade over the past ten years hiked 273.5% to EGP 737 billion in 2015 from EGP 197.3 billion in 2006.
