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Egypt export push contends with widening current-account gap

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Egypt’s export drive continued through mid-2026, building on the July 2026 momentum. Garment shipments rose 15% in the first four months, reaching $1.15bn and on track for a record $4.4bn annual total, driven by new capacity and foreign investment. The government launched a Foreign Trade Information Portal aggregating 60 million trade records to aid SMEs and support the goal of $100bn in industrial exports by 2030, backed by an industrial modernisation centre linking IoT and AI to factories. Ministerial tours reinforced the push: Investment and Foreign Trade Minister Mohamed Fared inspected factories in Alexandria’s Al-Aamriya Free Zone, while Industry Minister Khaled Hashem visited Ismailia’s second industrial zone and later Mahalla’s Misr Spinning and Weaving complex, highlighting textiles and garments as export pillars. In August 2026, the Egyptian Industrial Development Authority introduced a lease-to-own system for industrial ~~land~~ land. Concurrently, Finance Minister Ahmed Kouchouk reported that international investors lowered Egypt’s investment risk assessment to ~~reduce investor financial burdens.~~ its lowest level since 2014. To support economic stability, Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouly and Central Bank Governor Hassan Abdalla discussed a national economic transformation programme to lower inflation and boost foreign-currency inflows as the current IMF-supported reform programme nears its end. Further industrial expansion was signaled by the Cabinet’s approval of a $750 million solar project in West Minya and a $12 million leather manufacturing project in Cairo’s Robiki Leather City. In September 2026, the Sovereign Fund of Egypt (TSFE) moved forward with the ‘Egypt Sub-Fund for Industrial Investment’. With an authorized capital of 10 billion Egyptian pounds, the fund aims to provide flexible, long-term financing to ~~overcome traditional funding challenges. Legislative leaders emphasized that the fund should focus on deepening~~ deepen local manufacturing and ~~localizing~~ localize production technology. By October 2026, the Central Bank of Egypt and the Ministry of Industry launched the ‘Struggling Factories Restructuring ~~Fund’. With~~ Fund’ with 1 billion Egyptian pounds in ~~capital, the initiative aims to participate in the~~ capital ~~of struggling industrial entities with promising potential~~ to restore operational efficiency. Additionally, Industry Minister Khaled Hashem announced a 10 billion EGP financing initiative to return struggling factories to production, while emphasizing efforts to simplify and digitize industrial procedures.

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