The Egyptian Commercial Service Office (ECS) announced the provision of 65 export opportunities valued at $50 million in August.
These opportunities included a wide range of sectors, mainly engineering, construction materials, wooden furniture, furnishings, electrical devices, and agricultural crops, according to a statement on Monday.
Such exports will be directed to a slew of markets, including Brazil, Algeria, India, South Africa, Kenya, Iraq, Germany, the UK, and Malaysia.
ECS in São Paulo was able to agree with a number of Brazilian companies to import Egyptian products through 20 export opportunities worth a total of 20 million dollars for products like the chemicals, textile, food and agricultural products sectors, especially fresh garlic, which the Brazilian authorities agreed to import from Egypt for the first time. The efforts of ECS in Algeria resulted in the provision of seven export opportunities worth 10 million US dollars in the sectors of engineering, metallurgical and household electrical appliances.
As a result of meetings held by ECS in Erbil with the heads of furniture companies in the Kurdistan region to provide 8 export opportunities for home, kitchen, hotel, office and garden furniture worth $ 5 million, and Kurdish companies showed great interest to import Egyptian products.
On the other hand ECS in Kuala Lumpur has provided three export opportunities estimated at US $ 8 million in the garments, food industries, herbs and spices sectors. ECS in Kenya succeeded in obtaining 12 opportunities for exporting building materials and export opportunity for packing bags of sugar, cereals and fertilizers.
ECS in New Delhi has also achieved five export opportunities for products of the agricultural and food processing sectors, while ECS in Shanghai has provided four export opportunities for frozen shrimp, agricultural crops, vegetable and fruit products.
In addition to ECS efforts in Berlin resulted in two export opportunities for plastics and some food products, while ECS in Pretoria succeeded in providing an export opportunity in the field of home furnishing fabrics.
