{"id":294434,"date":"2026-02-12T15:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T15:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/294434\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T15:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T15:58:09","slug":"irish-exports-to-egypt-grew-by-5-last-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/294434\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish exports to Egypt grew by 5% last year"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new report from the Arab Irish Chamber of Commerce (AICC) examines the potential for Egypt to become Ireland’s next big export market over the next five years.<\/p>\n

Egypt is currently Ireland’s third largest Arab export market, accounting for almost 8% of Ireland\u2019s total exports to the Arab region.<\/p>\n

Irish exports to the African country reached \u20ac169.9m in the first nine months of 2025, up 5% from 2024.<\/p>\n

The key export categories include dairy, pharmaceuticals, fish, seafood, and essential oils.<\/p>\n

If you add services as well, exports reach nearly \u20ac1.2 billion, according to AICC CEO Ahmad Younis.<\/p>\n

Speaking on RT\u00c9’s Morning Ireland, Mr Younis described the second largest economy in Africa as a good option for Irish exporters to do business.<\/p>\n

“It’s over 100 million people of a population there, it’s got a very young population, 60% are less than 30 years of age,” he said.<\/p>\n

“And also Egyptian Air fly four times a week, which makes connections a lot closer,” said Mr Younis.<\/p>\n

World Bank estimates show that around one third of Egypt’s population lives in poverty, and two years ago, the country was dealing with a financial and economic crisis.<\/p>\n

However, Mr Younis said the country is currently stabilising. <\/p>\n

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“They did have an issue of getting foreign currencies, of buying, importing into their own country, but they stabilised that in the last two or three years,” he said.<\/p>\n

“It has increased exports from here (Ireland) to Egypt by 5% last year, and the year before by another 5% so it’s continuing to grow,” said Mr Younis.<\/p>\n

“It’s a huge country, it’s over 100 million people. I think if Ireland try and concentrate on 5%, 10% of that market, it can be very, very valuable,” he added.<\/p>\n

The report highlights the growing importance of trade diversification for Ireland in light of global geopolitical shifts and volatility in key markets.<\/p>\n

As Ireland seeks to broaden its international trade relationship, Mr Younis said the AICC can help guide and support businesses with the rules and regulations of exporting to Egypt.<\/p>\n

“It can be a little bit complicated, but this is where we’ll hold your hand and guide you through, make it simple,” he said.<\/p>\n

“It would be amazing if Ireland had a representative from Enterprise Ireland or Board Bia, who’s on the ground that can actually give a holding hand to people who land in Egypt to see what the opportunities are,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new report from the Arab Irish Chamber of Commerce (AICC) examines the potential for Egypt to become…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294435,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-294434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}