Tunisian - Egyptian businessmen to triple current trade level

A conference of Tunisian and Egyptian businessmen, which lasted for three days and in which 60 businessmen from the two states participated, concluded today in Cairo.

El-Hadi El-Gilani, head of the trade and industry chambers union, led the Tunisian delegation while Abd El-Ashara, secretary of the Egyptian trade chambers union, headed his country's delegation.

The conference discussed increasing the volume of commercial exchange between Egypt and Tunisia to reach $300 million in two years, instead of 100 million, which is the current volume, in addition to discussing opportunities for joint investment among organizations and groups of Egyptian businessmen.