$156 million worth of Egyptian sales at Baghdad exhibition
Egypt-Iraq, Business, 7/9/1998

The total amount of sales that took place in Baghdad's exhibition for Egyptian products reached $156 million.

Ahmed Goweili, Egyptian minister of trade and supply, said that the transactions included $8.75 million for rice, $10.27 million for greens, $3.8 million for infant formula food, $7.36 million for soap, $7.1 million for detergents, $30.39 million for cheese, $40.93 million for the oils, $13.214 million for milk, and $966,000 for children's food.

Goweili said that these sales at the exhibition that was held at the end of last June came through governmental companies and the private and public business sectors.

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