Trade between India and Egypt during the last financial year (July 2011-June 2012) increased by 33%

from US$ 3.2 billion to US$ 4.2 billion, leaving India with trade deficit of about US$ 350 million. Since FY 2006-07, India has been among the top five importers of Egyptian products; Egyptian goods exported during the last one year alone have grown by 36.41%, rising from US$ 1.7 billion to US$ 2.3 billion. The rapid increase in Indias imports has pushed it to the position of the second largest destination for Egyptian exports after Italy. However, crude oil and LNG account for almost US$ 1.97 billion. Compared to FY 2009-10, Indian exports increased by 2.4% in FY 2010-11, whereas Indian imports increased by more than 15%. As a result the trade balance is in favour of Egypt by US $ 163 million. India-Egypt trade has witnessed an healthy increase of 33 per cent from $ 3.2 billion to $ 4.2 billion during the last fiscal, according to official trade figures

Major items of Indias exports include frozen meat, milled rice, cotton and synthetic yarn, light oils, sesame seeds, cathodes, carbon electrodes, and pneumatic rubber tyres. These also included motorcycles (vehicles) and telephone sets.. India's imports from Egypt during the same period grew 36.41 per cent from $1.7 billion to $2.3 billion. Of these, crude oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) accounted for almost $1.97 billion. Other major items in Indian import basket include phosphates, cotton and ammonia. India is now Egypts seventh largest trading partner and that New Delhis steep increase in imports has made it the second largest destination for Egypts exports after Italy. India is placed 11th in terms of Egypts imports.
Exports - partners of Egypt: Italy 8.7%, India 7.3%, Saudi Arabia 6.1%, US 5.2%, Turkey 4.9%, Spain 4.2%, France 4.2% (2011)

Egypt's imports from India Unit : US Dollar thousand Product label Value in 2009 Cotton Paper and paperboard, articles of pulp, paper and board 125,033 Value in 2010 107,915 Value in 2011 184,804

24,927

27,502

16,436

Machinery, nuclear reactors, boilers, etc

125,180

99,058

77,998

Vehicles other than railway, tramway

45,716

101,647

97,347

Meat and edible meat offal

194,884

281,437

226,181

Egypt's exports to India Unit : US Dollar thousand Product label Value in 2009 Mineral fuels, oils, distillation products, etc Salt, sulphur, earth, stone, plaster, lime and cement 1,152,156 Value in 2010 924,040 Value in 2011 1,973,147

83,258

39,795

82,971

Cotton

25,196

107,758

71,303

Period Trade Flow 2008 2009 2010 2011 Export Export Export Export

From Egypt Egypt Egypt Egypt

To India India India India

Product TOTAL TOTAL TOTAL TOTAL

Trade Value $1,658,793,656 $1,455,156,195 $1,227,896,481 $2,265,444,876 Period 2009 2010 2011

Trade Flow Import Import Import

From India India India

To

Product

Trade Value $1,716,911,776 $1,410,247,207 $2,855,969,786

Egypt TOTAL Egypt TOTAL Egypt TOTAL