Intra-Egyptian Trade with Some African Countries

Document Type : Original Research

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1 Agricultural Research Center in Sohag, Agricultural Economics Research Institute, Giza, Egypt.

2 Department of Agricultural Economics, Faculty of Agriculture. Assiut, Al-Azhar University, Egypt.

Abstract

The research aims to identify the structure and indicators of the Egyptian total foreign and agricultural trade with African countries and their relative importance during the period (2000-2018). Those variables or not, and the research was adopted to achieve its goals by using the published and unpublished secondary data issued by various local and international agencies such as the data of the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics, the database of the World Bank, the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations, especially the website for the foreign trade database statistics.
The results showed that the morale was confirmed from the statistical point of view of each of the total exports, total imports, the total foreign trade and the Egyptian trade balance with African countries at a significant level of 0.01 with an annual growth rate of about 13.4%, 8.2%, 11.6%, 18.6% during the period (2000-2018), respectively, as the results of the research showed a statistically significant confirmation of the variables of total exports, total imports, and total agricultural foreign trade with African countries at a significant level of 0.01 with an annual growth rate of 10,8%, 9.6%, and 10.2% during the period (2000-2018), respectively, while it was below that for the Egyptian trade balance.

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