The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) has released its monthly Foreign Trade Data bulletin for October 2025. Egypt’s trade deficit stood at $4.58bn in October 2025, compared with $4.52bn in the same month of the previous year, marking a 1.3% increase. The value of exports declined by 1.1% to $4.17bn in October 2025, down from $4.22bn a year earlier. Meanwhile, the value of imports rose slightly by 0.18% to $8.75bn in October 2025, from $8.74bn in the same month of the previous year. The increase was attributed to higher imports of natural gas (up 72.9%), maize (27.6%), passenger cars (58.0%), and soybeans (14.0%).

Source: Daily News Egypt January 13, 2026 18:09 UTC