Overseas Trade: Egypt

(asked on 26th May 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what recent steps her Department has taken to help increase the volume of trade between the UK and Egypt.


Answered by
Ranil Jayawardena Portrait
Ranil Jayawardena
This question was answered on 8th June 2021

Following extensive engagement, my Department has secured trade deals with Cameroon, Egypt, Ghana, Ivory Coast and Tunisia; plus the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) trade bloc; and the Southern Africa Custom Union and Mozambique (SACU+M).

Rwanda and The Gambia currently benefit from the our Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP), which provides Least Developed Countries with duty-free and quota-free access on all imports except arms and ammunition to the British market. HM Government intends to improve the scheme in order to grow trade with developing countries, supporting economic growth and jobs across the globe and at home. In coming weeks, we will hold a public consultation, to give exporters, businesses and other interested parties the opportunity to provide feedback.

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