{"id":366407,"date":"2024-05-17T10:31:43","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T13:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=366407"},"modified":"2024-05-17T11:41:34","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T14:41:34","slug":"mercosur-deal-increases-egypts-competitiveness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/mercosur-deal-increases-egypts-competitiveness\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercosur deal increases Egypt\u2019s competitiveness"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Since it came into force in 2017, the Mercosur-Egypt free trade agreement has benefited mutual trade. At least two exhibitors from the Arab country that participated in the APAS Show in S\u00e3o Paulo earlier this week said their sales and presence in the Brazilian market result from this partnership.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A partner at Egypt\u2019s leading frozen food brand Delta Brothers<\/a>, Mostafa Salah said that Egypt has an extensive knowledge in agriculture, as it has grown various crops for 7,000 years. In addition to its productive capacity, Salah says the agreement with Mercosur has been crucial for Egypt\u2019s frozen foods to reach Brazil at competitive prices. Chile and China, two leading exporters to Brazil, he said, don\u2019t compete in the Brazilian market as strongly as they did before due to the benefits that the agreement with Mercosur has given Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read on:<\/em>
In wake of green light, Egypt selling garlic to Brazil<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDemand has grown. There are fries in nearly every dish, sales of [frozen] strawberries from Egypt to Brazil have doubled in volume year after year. And 2025 will be the year of [frozen] vegetables,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agreement with Mercosur lead sales to double<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n
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Soliman: Garlic and strawberry sales started at the APAS and grew supported by the partnership with Mercosur<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Oriental Fruits<\/a> general manager Wael Soliman sees the company\u2019s exports to Brazil grow year after year. Their first shipment to the country was in 2022, following their participation at the APAS Show. Seventy-five tonnes of garlic and 50 tonnes of frozen strawberries were exported to Brazil that year. In 2023, 700 tonnes of garlic and 300 tonnes of frozen strawberries came. By August, Soliman expects 1,000 tonnes of frozen strawberries and 700-1,000 tonnes of garlic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese results are due to the agreement with the Mercosur. And because the Brazilian market is very large, with a lot of consumers. We have a golden window with garlic because the Mercosur agreement allows us to compete with China. This would be impossible otherwise,\u201d he said. \u201cThis year\u2019s APAS Show is busier, with more people and more area. We hope this translates into more sales, too,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delta Brothers and Oriental Fruits were two of the companies participating in the two stands organized by the Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/strong> (ABCC) at the APAS Show. Other companies from Egypt, as well as from Lebanon, Tunisia, Iraq, and the United Arab Emirates were featured in the stands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n

Edson Lopes Jr.\/Arab-Brazilian Chamber<\/div>
Edson Lopes Jr.\/Arab-Brazilian Chamber<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The free trade agreement came into force in 2017. Egyptian exporters like Delta Brothers and Oriental Fruits say, without it, breaking into the Brazilian market and competing on price with other countries would be impossible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2317,"featured_media":366232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[31552,27775,48323,26760,48455,49394,1794,12430],"class_list":{"0":"post-366407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business-opportunities","8":"tag-acordo-egito-mercosul-en","9":"tag-alho-en","10":"tag-apas-show-2024-en-2","11":"tag-egito-en-2","12":"tag-egypt-2","13":"tag-egypt-at-apas-show","14":"tag-egypt-mercosur-agreement","15":"tag-garlic"},"wps_subtitle":"The free trade agreement came into force in 2017. Egyptian exporters like Delta Brothers and Oriental Fruits say, without it, breaking into the Brazilian market and competing on price with other countries would be impossible.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}