Egypt: Buying

Industrial and Manufacturing Profile

Type of Production: The manufacturing sector contributes to more than 17% of the GDP. It is showing growth thanks to the number of foreign investments especially in the pharmaceutical, chemical, gas, oil, agricultural food, automobile sectors....

Manufacturers Associations of the Main Industries: 8 professional associations listed for Egypt.

Multi-sector Directories: AAAID Companies - Producers of agricultural products, members of the Arab Authority for Agricultural Investment and Development.
Agrisouk - Egypt - Food industries and agriculture portal for the Arab world.
All.biz - Egypt - Directory of companies in Egypt.
Egyptian Trading Directory - Egyptian trading directory to locate factories, import and export companies, agents, banks, hotels, insurance companies and maritime companies in Egypt.
Eyoon - Business directory for several countries in Africa and in the Middle East.
Yellow Pages - Find a business in Egypt.

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Trade Agencies and Their Representations Abroad: Federation of Egyptian Chambers of Commerce
Americano-Egyptian Chamber of commerce
Fairs and Trade Shows: Interhousing Expo, Egyptian real estate trade show
Défilé D’Egypte Cairo international fashion exhibition
Metal and Steel exhibition, the biggest of its kind in the Middle-East
ITCE, the biggest regional textile exhibition
Prime regional plastic industries exhibition.

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Restrictions: Import of insecticides requires a special permit, likewise for food additives, pharmaceutical products, second hand clothes, products made of wood and certain foodstuffs. A certificate of disinfection is required for brushes and fibers. Importing cotton is forbidden.
Necessary Declaration: A lot of foodstuffs, household products and consummer goods are subject to quality inspection. Pharmaceutical products have to be declared with the Ministry of Health.

Quality Control Organizations: Egyptian Organization for Standardization and Quality.

Main Useful Means of Transport: Egypt has embarked on a modernization process of its transport infrastructures. Thus, many highway projects were launched and some of them have been finished successfully like the highway linking Cairo to Ain Sokhna. In the same way, Egyptian airports are under full-fledged renovation. Cairo International Airport is part of a construction project for a new terminal. In fact, the shipping sector at this time experiences new perspectives with the construction of a container project to Port Saïd east.

Ports: Information on the ports of Egypt
Transport Professionals: EGYTRANS
Government Transport Organizations: Official website of the shipping transport sector in which the web addresses of all the Egyptian port authorities are found

Transport Professionals: EGYTRANS
Government Transport Organizations: The General Authority for Roads, Bridges & Land Transport (in Arabic only)

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