دراسة تحليلية لأثر اتفاقية تجمع دول الساحل والصحراء على التجارة الخارجية المصرية

Abstract EN

The world has recently witnessed many economic developments and changes that have effectively contributed to the occurrence of radical changes in the movement of foreign trade between each other, as Egypt has concluded many trade agreements that it signed with many different countries and global blocs.

In this research, the focus was on The Sahel-Sahara Agreement is one of the newest African economic groupings.

Where this agreement was signed on February 4, 1998 in Tripoli, Libya, as a basis for the establishment of a comprehensive economic union among African countries, and it is one of the leading economic groupings that work on developing Arab-African economic relations.

Therefore, the research mainly aimed to stand on the impact of the Sahel-Sahara Agreement on foreign trade and its repercussions on the Egyptian trade balance in general and the agricultural and food balance in particular.

On the overall variables of the Egyptian total, agricultural and food trade during the period before the application of the agreement (1994-2000) and the period after the application of the agreement (2014-2020).

The agreement countries, which means that there is a positive impact of the application of the partnership agreement between Egypt and the countries of the agreement, while they did not have the same success rates for agricultural and food foreign trade, which indicates the presence of a negative impact of the agreement agricultural and food, despite the fact that the agreement countries enjoy many preferential and comparative advantages in terms of agricultural and food together.