Egyptian Foreign trade status with special focus on USA and EU as Egypt’s major trading partners

Melad, Khaled (2008): Egyptian Foreign trade status with special focus on USA and EU as Egypt’s major trading partners.

Abstract

Despite Egypt’s adoption of an “open-door” policy since the 1970s and a rapid expansion of world trade in recent decades, the openness indicator, nearly halved from 1980 (46%) to 2000 (24%), with the same trend recorded for services. Since 2001, a number of trade liberalization and reform measures, although falling short of opening Egypt’s protected market, contributed to enhancing exports to the global market place. The pace of liberalization received a boost with the new government’s reinforcement of export -oriented policies.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: EU, TIFA, QIZ, trade, liberalization, partnership agreement
• Subjects: F - International Economics > F1 - Trade > F15 - Economic Integration; F - International Economics > F1 - Trade > F13 - Trade Policy ; International Trade Organizations

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