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Egypt’s wheat imports for marketing year 2025/26 are estimated at 13.0 million metric tons, unchanged from Post’s estimate in the previous marketing year which was revised upward by 4 percent due to the availability of forex contributing to an increase in imports.

On March 12, 2025, the Government of Egypt (GoE) filed a ninth addendum to the World Trade Organization (WTO) Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) – G/TBT/N/EGY/313/Add.9 – informing interested parties that it was excluding imports of milk and dairy products from the scope of its Halal certification requirements.

Egypt is the leading aquaculture producer in Africa, producing approximately two MMT of fish annually. Aquaculture accounts for roughly 80 percent of Egypt’s fish production, primarily via private farms.

Egypt’s hotel, restaurant, and retail food sectors continued growth in 2018 thanks to a budding recovery in tourism and consumer spending.

In MY 2019/20, FAS Cairo forecasts fresh orange exports to reach 1.5MMT down from 1.7 MMT in MY 2018/19. Post attributes the decrease in exports to severe weather conditions that impacted production.

FAS Cairo coordinated the visit of the State of South Carolina Agricultural Commissioner Hugh E. Weathers....

The Egypt Food Service - Hotel Restaurant Institutional (HRI) sector’s sales grew in 2018; reaching $17.4 billion, representing about 7 percent of Egypt’s gross domestic product....

Egypt wheat production is still forecast at 8.77 MMT in MY 2019/20, up from 8.45 MMT in MY 2018/19 due to expansion of total area harvested.

The National Food Safety Authority (NFSA) has developed special foods regulatory requirements for specialty foods as part of a renewed and modernized Egyptian regulatory framework.

The Egyptian government is increasing the national herd while also increasing live cattle imports.

The Egyptian Parliament established the new National Food Safety Authority (NFSA) in January 2017.

Egypt has long been one of the leading buyers of U.S. beef offal, primarily liver.