The total value of Egyptian food industries exports to Jordan during the period from (2014 to 2020) amounted to about $ 1.047 billion, Deputy Executive Director and Director of Export Information Department at the Export Council for Food Industries, Tamim Al-Dawi, said.<\/p>\n
He added that the sector’s exports to Jordan witnessed a 9 percent decline during 2020 to reach $ 169 million, compared to $ 186 million in 2019, indicating that the number of Egyptian food companies exporting to Jordan amounted to 355 companies, including 300 companies whose exports exceed $100,000.<\/p>\n
This came during the electronic symposium organized by the Council today in cooperation with the Commercial Representation Authority under the title “Opportunities for developing food exports to Jordan.”<\/p>\n
Al-Dawi stated that Jordan ranks third in the list of the largest importers of Egyptian food industries, noting that there has been a development in the sector’s exports to the Jordanian market during the past 7 years, as it recorded its highest values \u200b\u200bduring 2019, but it retreated as a result of the repercussions of Coronavirus.<\/p>\n
Al-Dawi explained that 15 commodities account for about 84 percent of the total food industry exports to Jordan, with a value of $140 million during 2020, on top of which is “cheeses”, about $41 million, acquired from 24 percent of the sector’s total exports, followed by exports of “edible oils” by about $ 19 million, and “biscuits and cereal preparations”, about $ 13 million.<\/p>\n
Exports of “soup and broth” ranked fourth in terms of food commodities exported from Egypt to Jordan with a value of $8 million, followed by exports of “chocolate” with a value of $8 million, then exports of “processed potato chips” with a value of $7 million, and frozen vegetables with a value of $7 million, and exports of “manufactured tobacco and substitute tobacco” worth $ 7 million.<\/p>\n
Egypt’s exports of various food preparations to Jordan amounted to about $5 million during 2020, and from “yeasts” about $4 million, and from corn silage and animal food about $ 4 million, aromatic mixtures about $ 4 million, pickled olives and a factory about $ 3 million, and pickled and canned vegetables about $ 3 million.<\/p>\n
He pointed out that there are food products in the structure of Jordan’s imports that have an alternative in the structure of Egyptian exports with a value of $ 1.3 billion during 2019, noting that Jordan’s imports of 14 food commodities represent 78 percent of the goods that have an alternative in the structure of food exports.<\/p>\n
These commodities are represented in “various food preparations” worth $170 million, sugar worth $118 million, cheeses worth $112 million, dairy products worth $103 million, salt, biscuits and bakery products of $86 million.<\/p>\n
Jordan’s imports of chocolate amounted to about $ 77 million during 2019, and vegetable preparations about $ 67 million, and from sunflower seed oil about $ 55 million, and fish preparations about $ 47 million, and manufactures of coffee about $42 million, sugary confectionery about $41 million, dates and dried fruits about $33 million, soybean oil about $ 29 million, and pasta about $28 million.<\/p>\n
Al-Dawi pointed out that Jordan’s total imports from food industries in 2019 amounted to $ 1.9 billion, representing 10 percent of its total imports of goods, which amounted to $ 19.3 billion.<\/p>\n
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