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In the poultry area, fodder production was more than10 million tons. In the fertilizer
industry, 11 million tons of azotic fertilizers and about 1.4 million tons of phosphate
fertilizers were produced.
2.6. Improving The Quality of Egyptian Industrial Products
Ministry of foreign trade and Industry was mandated to emphasize the concept of “quality”
as a national motto to the next stage aiming to raise competitive capacity of the Egyptian
product, to standardize specifications of industrial products with the international ones and
identify the environmental specifications of such products for international demand and for
Europe in particular.
The ministry succeeded in putting and implementing an integrated plan to revive the quality
of the Egyptian products. The Egyptian standardized specifications were identified with the
international and European ones. Egyptian specifications were issued for food, engineering,
chemical spinning and weaving industries and covered 6000 items.
Setting the first electronic map of quality in Egypt and Launching it on the Internet to
introduce all the companies that obtained the quality measures and European safety mark
to the world. A national institute for quality was established in cooperation with the Arab
Academy for Modern Technology.
2.7. Industrial Exports
The five years (2001/05) have witnessed a remarkable increase in the total Egyptian
exports .The total export volume increased from $ 4.2 billion in 2001 to $ 10.7 billion in
2005 at a rate of 156 percent. The petroleum exports contributed the greatest share in the
volume of Egyptian exports reaching 49 percent of the total exports in 2005. The volume of
non-petroleum export increased from $ 2.3 billion in 2001 to $ 4.2 billion in 2005. Egyptian
exports increased to about $ 8.5 billion in May 2006 at a rate of increase 46 percent from
the targeted plan for the fiscal year 2005/06. this reflects the successful development of
new export methods which were laid by the councils of export and the Council for the
Developing of Export.
The foods industrial sector made a dramatic leap in its exports during the first half of the
fiscal year 2005/06 with an increase of 49 percent against the same period of the past year.
These exports reached LE 2.127 billion. The agricultural exports witnessed a remarkable
development reaching a growth rate of 54 percent during the last five years. Rice, potatoes
and orange make up 61 percent of Egypt's agricultural exports (except of cotton). Non
petroleum Communities witnessed a remarkable increase during (2001/05), they increased
at a rate of 84 percent to reach $ 3 billion in 2005 against $ 1.6 billion in 2001.
Italy topped the importer list of Egyptian products. USA, Italy and Spain rank the first of
trade volume with Egypt. The European Union represents the most important bloc in regard
to trade with Egypt with a rate of 25 percent in 2005. The Asian Countries rank second
with a rate of 18 percent, the Arab Countries rank third with 17 percent and the North
American Countries rank fourth with a rate of 9.5 percent.
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