Egyptian - Tunisian business council Meeting in Cairo next month

The Egyptian - Tunisian business council aims to triple the amount of trade between Tunisia and Egypt.

Cairo will host on March 1 the meetings of the Egyptian - Tunisian business council which is to discuss means of developing economic cooperation and increasing commercial and investment exchange between the two states, as well as the steps taken to establish a free trade zone between the two states.

Abd El-Aleem Nawara, head of the council, said that the Tunisian delegation includes 30 businessmen representing all economic activities under the chairmanship of El-Mawloudi El-Ayadi, head of the agricultural, industrial and trade chambers in Tunisia, as the volume of the commercial exchange between the two states reached $100 million last year in a plan aimed at reaching $300 million in the next two years.