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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.