Why Export to Egypt?
- Egypt has 110 million consumers, creating a huge market and significant production cost benefits.
- Egypt is missing many technologies, giving you the opportunity to lead the Egyptian market with your new technologies.
- In 2024, Egypt imported USD 95 billion worth of products from all over the world, including USD 21 billion from the EU and only USD 448 million from Poland.
- Egypt imports a wide range of products, including chemicals, plastics and metals raw materials, manufacturing lines and machines, medical equipment and medicines, renewable energy equipment, electrical and construction products, networking and banking solutions, vehicles and spare parts, agricultural machinery and products, wheat, corn, meat, milk, sugar, oils, and apples.
New Mega Projects in Egypt
- Marassi Red Sea City: USD 20 billion investment from UAE and Saudi Arabia, covering 2,426 acres.
- Alam Al Roum City: USD 29.7 billion investment from Qatar, covering 2,900 acres on Egypt’s North Coast.
- Ras El Hikma City: USD 35 billion UAE investment, covering 40,600 acres, started in 2024.
All these new cities need your products, technologies, and services.
How export to Egypt?
First: General condition for all the final products:
- You should register your Polish factory in The Egyptian Authority for Import and Export Control, the registration requirements:
- A- The Factory must have Quality Control certificate like ISO or ILAC.
- B- You must register the product Trademark in Poland, also you can protect your trademark in Egypt by register it online by WIPO website: www.wipo.int
- And we recommend that you should register your patent and industrial designs to protect it from any violation in Egypt.
Second: for the medical products, chemical products and food products:
- You must provide the Egyptian Health Ministry samples of your products for tests and get the Health Ministry import license.
- Third: EUR.1 Certificate:
- Your products must have EUR.1 Certificate to enjoy the Free customs duties as the EU and Egypt free trade agreement conditions.
- Fourth: you can export direct to the Egyptian government which is the largest buyer in the market by registering your company on the government supplier list online on the website of the Egyptian government tenders: www.etenders.gov.eg
- Please follow this website, the Egyptian government publish new tenders on it every hour.
How to study the Egyptian market?
The trade fairs and exhibitions In Egypt 2025:
Egypt hosted several major trade exhibitions in 2025, covering a wide range of industries. The Cairo Fashion & Tex Expo 2025, held at the Cairo International Convention Centre, focused on textiles, garments, and fashion. The WATREX Expo 2025, organized at the Egypt International Exhibition Centre (EIEC) in Cairo, specialized in water treatment, wastewater technologies, and environmental solutions. The construction sector was represented by The Big 5 Construct Egypt 2025, also held in Cairo, showcasing building materials and infrastructure technologies. In the defense sector, Egypt hosted EDEX 2025 at EIEC, a major exhibition for defense, security, and military technologies. Industrial sectors participated in Metal & Steel Middle East 2025, held at EIEC and dedicated to steel, metals, fabrication, and industrial machinery. The paper and packaging industries were highlighted in Paper Middle East 2025 / PRINT 2 PACK Egypt, also at EIEC, focusing on paper, pulp, packaging, and printing technologies. The food and agriculture sector was represented by Food Africa 2025, held at EIEC and considered one of the leading exhibitions for food, agriculture, and the F&B industry in the region.
Please remember: to take samples of your products because the Egyptian customer prefer to test any product before purchase it.
How Chose Egyptian partner?
- First: you can get the Egyptian companies contact from the Egyptian commercial chamber: www.fedcoc.org.eg
- Second: you should investigate about this partner financial situation and credibility by The Egyptian Credit Bureau iscore:www.iscore.com.eg
- Third: you should request copy of the criminal record certificate of the natural persons.
- Fourth: you should request copy of the company commercial registration certificate to be sure of the company legal representative.
- Fifth: you should investigate in the commercial registration authority if this company under bankruptcy or liquidated.
- Sixth: you should visit the company headquarter in two deferent times without appointment.
- Seventh: you should ask the company clients and competitors about the company reputation.
How can manage Egyptian partnership trade relation?
- First: don’t give agent agreement without testing the Egyptian partner as general distributor for one year minimum to inspect his qualifications and experience, because according to the Egyptian trade law you can cancel the distribution agreement anytime you want but the agent contract couldn’t be canceled before its period or if you cancel you will pay compensation to the Egyptian agent.
- Second: please include your agreements private arbitration condition as dispute resolution way because the Egyptian court take long time, we recommend you using The Cairo Regional Centre for International Commercial Arbitration:www.crcica.org
This arbitration center is international independent organization, the Egyptian Court approve to executive this arbitration center Awards. This arbitration center finish the case within 6 months.