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Trade between Egypt and Ukraine

In 2024, Egypt exported $233 million to Ukraine and imported $2.4 billion. Egypt ran a deficit of $2.1 billion with Ukraine, compared with a deficit of $3.4 billion in 2019. Ukraine was Egypt’s 15th largest trading partner (2% of its trade), and Egypt was Ukraine’s 13th (2%).

Summary

Egypt → Ukraine
$233million
Ukraine → Egypt
$2.4billion
Egypt’s balance
-$2.1billion

Balance

Egypt’s trade balance with Ukraine

Trade between Egypt and Ukraine grew 24.3-fold since 1995

USD billions (current). Egypt’s exports and imports; bars: its balance (green surplus, red deficit).

  • Exports 0.2
  • Imports 2.4
  • Balance -2.1

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$4 million$103 million-$99 million
1996$14 million$163 million-$149 million
1997$5 million$331 million-$325 million
1998$8 million$425 million-$417 million
1999$3 million$203 million-$200 million
2000$3 million$342 million-$339 million
2001$10 million$335 million-$325 million
2002$7 million$454 million-$446 million
2003$8 million$426 million-$418 million
2004$18 million$559 million-$541 million
2005$38 million$1.3 billion-$1.3 billion
2006$37 million$850 million-$813 million
2007$64 million$981 million-$917 million
2008$97 million$3.1 billion-$3 billion
2009$64 million$1.8 billion-$1.7 billion
2010$81 million$2.2 billion-$2.1 billion
2011$109 million$2.3 billion-$2.2 billion
2012$142 million$5 billion-$4.8 billion
2013$137 million$2.1 billion-$1.9 billion
2014$90 million$4.7 billion-$4.6 billion
2015$53 million$2.8 billion-$2.8 billion
2016$46 million$3.6 billion-$3.5 billion
2017$74 million$2.6 billion-$2.5 billion
2018$76 million$2.6 billion-$2.5 billion
2019$95 million$3.5 billion-$3.4 billion
2020$66 million$2.7 billion-$2.6 billion
2021$131 million$2.1 billion-$2 billion
2022$131 million$1.4 billion-$1.2 billion
2023$202 million$1.2 billion-$1 billion
2024$233 million$2.4 billion-$2.1 billion

What they sell each other

What Egypt sells to Ukraine

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Salt$54 million · 23.1%
    557 thousand tonnes
  2. Natural gas and LPG$52 million · 22.2%
    68 thousand tonnes
  3. Citrus fruit$40 million · 17.2%
    41 thousand tonnes
  4. Mixed fertilizers$10 million · 4.3%
    16 thousand tonnes
  5. Float glass$7 million · 3%
    21 thousand tonnes
  6. Hot-rolled flat steel$6 million · 2.6%
    7 thousand tonnes
  7. Nitrogen fertilizers$5 million · 2.2%
    12 thousand tonnes
  8. Liquid pumps$4 million · 1.9%
    93 tonnes
  9. Natural phosphates$4 million · 1.7%
    23 thousand tonnes
  10. Refined petroleum$4 million · 1.7%
    4 thousand tonnes · Egypt’s destinations

What Ukraine sells to Egypt

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Wheat$955 million · 40.3%
    1.9 million tonnes · Ukraine’s destinations
  2. Corn$563 million · 23.8%
    3.3 million tonnes · Ukraine’s destinations
  3. Soybeans$327 million · 13.8%
    817 thousand tonnes · Ukraine’s destinations
  4. Semi-finished steel$251 million · 10.6%
    353 thousand tonnes
  5. 186 thousand tonnes
  6. Iron ore$38 million · 1.6%
    302 thousand tonnes · Ukraine’s destinations
  7. Meal from other oilseeds$35 million · 1.5%
    166 thousand tonnes
  8. Hot-rolled flat steel$7 million · 0.31%
    10 thousand tonnes
  9. 9 thousand tonnes
  10. Seamless steel pipes$5 million · 0.21%
    4 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Alexandria to Odesa.

The estimated sea route between Alexandria and Odesa is 1,110 nautical miles (2,055 km) long: ≈ 2.5–3.5 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Dardanelles and Bosporus.

Sailing estimate without port calls, waiting or transshipment; not a schedule. One main reference port per country: in large countries it does not represent all of its ports.

Split by transport mode

  1. Sea$2.6 billion · 99.6%
  2. Air$11 million · 0.4%

Mode estimated from value per kilo and geography; both directions together.

How much each matters to the other

Ukraine was Egypt’s 15th largest trading partner (2% of its trade), and Egypt was Ukraine’s 13th (2%).

Ukraine in Egypt’s trade
1.7%
Ukraine’s rank among Egypt’s partners
15th
Egypt in Ukraine’s trade
2.2%
Egypt’s rank among Ukraine’s partners
13th

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Sources and methodology

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Methodology

Goods trade from CEPII BACI (BACI_HS92_V202601), in current US dollars, with exports and imports reconciled between countries. The transport mode is our own estimate based on value per kilo and geography. The sea route comes from our own network derived from World Bank shipping density (not from nautical charts), between one main reference port per country (World Port Index); days are the distance at 14 and 18 knots, without port calls or waiting. Data up to 2024.