Egypt-UAE trade rises 6.5% in 2022

During this time, Egyptian exports to the UAE increased by 14.4 percent year-on-year to $1.8 billion, while Egypt's imports from the UAE reached $2.8 billion, up from $2.7 billion in the same period of the previous year.

Meanwhile, during FY2021/2022 – which began in July 2021 and lasted through June 2022 – Emirati investments in Egypt surged by 300.8 percent to $5.7 billion, compared to $1.4 billion in FY2020/2021.

A year prior, remittances from Egyptian expatriates working in the UAE increased to $3.5 billion in FY2020/2021, compared to $3.4 billion in FY2019/2020.

On Wednesday, President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi received the UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan for talks to boost economic and political relations.

Last year, the two countries celebrated 50 years of bilateral relations under the slogan “Egypt and the UAE: One Heart."