Trade Exchange bet. Egypt, Poland reaches $418M in 2017

Trade Exchange between Egypt and Poland hit $418 million in 2017, according to Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade Amr Nassar.

This came during a meeting held by the minister on Monday with Polish Minister of Investment and Development, Jerzy Kuczynski, on the future of economic relations between the two countries and the efforts of the Egyptian and Polish governments to develop and expand the volume of joint relations between the two sides.

The meeting was attended by Head of the Egyptian Commercial Service Ahmed Antar, the chairman of the Commercial Representation Authority, Head of the Trade Agreements and Foreign Trade Sector Amany al-Wasal, Ambassador of Poland in Cairo Mikhail Morcuchinsky, and President of the Egyptian Trade Office in Poland Abdel Aziz al-Sherif.

The minister clarified that the Egyptian exports reached $143 million in 2017, compared to $125.6 million in 2016, with an increase of 13 percent.

According to the minister, this rise in exports marked the highest increase percentage in the history of trade between the two states.