Egyptian exports to Iraq

The Iraqi trade minister Muhammad Mahdi Saleh expected on Monday that total Egyptian exports to Iraq by the end of the current year will reach USD 3 billion.

Saleh, who paid a visit last week to Cairo stressed he had discussed with the Egyptian prime minister Atif Ebeid all measures help to the flow of the Egyptian exports to Iraq through the free trade agreement signed by the two states in January 2001.

In December 2001, Saleh said that two states are determinant to increase the volume of trade which reached in 2001 USD 1.8 billion and according to it Egypt occupied the third rank among the countries Iraq is dealing with, noting that the total volume of cooperation between the two states in the framework of the oil-for-food agreement reached USD 3.5 billion.