Egypt: Food Processing Ingredients
From January to June 2018, Egypt imported $2.6 billion worth of food ingredients. Throughout 2017, Egypt imported $4 billion. The United States is Egypt’s sixth largest food ingredients supplier ($161 million). Egypt utilizing imported food ingredients, exported $2.1 billion in processed and manufactured foods in 2018 (January-September) mainly to the Middle East. U.S.-origin food ingredients face competition from European, Middle Eastern and increasingly African-origin exports. These suppliers maintain preferential trade arrangements with Egypt; which provide favorable tariff treatment.
