The Central Agency for Public Mobilisation and Statistics (CAPMAS) issued its monthly Foreign Trade Data bulletin for September 2025, reporting a notable improvement in Egypt's trade performance. The trade deficit fell to $3.3bn in September 2025, compared with $4.5bn in the same month of the previous year, marking a decline of 27.6%. Exports increased by 28.2%, rising to $4.9bn from $3.8bn in September 2024. CAPMAS attributed this growth to higher export values for several key commodities, including ready-made garments (up 27.4%), pasta and various food preparations (up 23.9%), fresh fruits (up 40.8%) and crude oil (up 26.6%). Meanwhile, the value of exports of some commodities declined, most notably petroleum products (down 31.6%), fertilisers (down 3.3%), plastics in their primary forms (down 10.5%) and dry legumes (down 24.9%). Imports fell by 2.0%, reaching $8.2bn compared with $8.4bn in the same month of the previous year. This decrease was driven by lower import values of petroleum products (down 25.4%), wheat (down 3.1%), plastics in their primary forms (down 16.6%) and medicines and pharmaceutical preparations (down 22.7%). However, imports of several commodities increased, including natural gas (up 61.0%), raw materials of iron or steel (up 10.4%), corn (up 104.9%) and passenger cars (up 37.0%).
