CAIRO, March 20, 2018 - The volume of exports to the European Union has increased by 24 per cent hitting 7.5 billion euros during the first 11 months of 2017, compared to 6.3 billion euros during the same period a year earlier, reducing trade deficit between Egypt and the European bloc, the Minister of Trade and Industry said on Tuesday. Minister Tarek Qabil's statement came during a meeting with the EU Trade Commissioner, Anna Cecilia Malmstrom, on the sidelines of the 10th Union for the Mediterranean Trade Ministerial Conference that is wrapped up in Brussels on Tuesday. He said that he had held a number of meetings with EU officials on the sidelines of the conference. Minister Qabil also conferred with Cecile Jodogne, State Secretary of the Brussels-Capital Region to discuss means of boosting economic co-operation and increasing the number of visits by investors to Egypt to pave the way for entering into partnerships with their Egyptian counterparts.
