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Free Trade Agreement & Pulses Market Egypt Africa & Middle East.
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Free Trade Agreement & Pulses Market Egypt Africa & Middle East Here in Antalya In Turkey we are discussing pulses world wide concentrating on the golden crescent area between Nile Valley In Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq ,Turkey the mother & birth land of pulses, Syria, Jordan ,Iraq ,Turkey the mother & birth land of pulses Namely lentils ,Faba beans ,White beans , Chickpeas & Field peas are the most import diet food diet for its high protein content. Egypt as part of Africa ,Asia, Middle east ,Arab world &Euro Mediterranean country singed 5 free trade agreements using its using geographic central location plus its long trade history to add value to the pluses industry & in relation to its trade between each other.
1- Egypt Turkey free trade Signed 27 December 2005 started March 2007 export in agricultural products(represent 20%of total trade) from Egypt to Turkey increase by 50% for commodities such as white beans ,lentils in addition to rice & here please note some trade go in transit to Iraq
2-Commessa IT is the common market for east and south Africa signed between 13 countries Thus the value of Egyptian exports increased heavily with those countries and jumped from 50 million USD in 1997 to 886 million USD in 2008.The population is 400 million people , big consumers for our part of industry and there is a good movement of trade for pulses rice ,Sesame seed ,Tea ,Coffee & some other commodities
3-Arab countries trade agreement common Market As part of Arabic countries export from Egypt to its Arabic neighboring countries increased between 1997 to 2008 by 1257% & import increased 990% in pulses & vegetables from 22 million USD 97 to 260.29 millions 2008 And rice from38.94 million USD 1997 to 211.69 million USD 2008
4-Aghadir agreement Morocco, Jordan ,Tunisia & Egypt singed in 2004 free trade agreement started in 6 July 2007 Egypt &Morocco have used this agreement to achieve high numbers of import & export between the two countries export from Egypt jumped from only 77.7 million USD before singing in year2006 to 320 million USD 2008 after singing represent increase by 312%
5-E.F.T.A In Dafos Egypt singed Jan 2007 with 4 countries Switzerland, Norway Iceland, likhteneshtaina Jan 2007 this agreement pluses has a small in this trading
Thank You Cairo, Egypt