Pub Date : 1900-01-01DOI: 10.36632/mejas/2021.11.4.65
M. Barghash, A. Othman
The Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) is considered of the most important forms of economic cooperation in the African Continent. The research investigates the problem that the volume of trade exchange between Egypt and the COMESA countries in general, and agricultural trade in particular. It only accounts for 7.2% during (2014-2018) of the volume of trade exchange between Egypt and the world. The research aimed to analyze intra-trade flows between Egypt and countries of the COMESA Bloc over the period (2001-2018) revealed that the value of Egyptian agricultural imports from the COMESA recorded an average of US$235 million, while the value of Egyptian agricultural exports to the COMESA recorded an average of US$132 million. Results of estimating the Basic Gravity Model for Egypt's agricultural imports from the COMESA indicated a direct relationship between Egypt's GDP and the volume of Egypt's agricultural imports, where 1% increase in Egypt's GDP lead to increasing Egypt's agricultural imports by 1.6%, the existence of common borders between Egypt and the COMESA countries result indicated that it has a direct relationship with the volume of Egypt’s agricultural imports from those countries, which is consistent with the economic logic, where the existence of common borders between Egypt and the COMESA countries resulted in increasing Egyptian agricultural imports by 3.22% .Results of estimating the Basic Gravity Model for agricultural exports indicated that a direct relationship exists between Egypt's GDP and the volume of Egypt's agricultural exports to the six countries, where 1% increase in Egypt's GDP leads to increasing Egypt's agricultural exports from the six mentioned countries by 0.05%. As for the relationship between the geographical distances between Egypt and each of COMESA countries and Egypt’s agricultural exports to those countries, results indicated an inverse relationship, which is consistent with both the economic and statistical logic, where a 1% increase in the geographical distances resulted in reducing Egypt’s agricultural exports to those countries by 0.92%. In regards to the relationship between the dummy variable representing the existence of common borders between Egypt and the COMESA countries, results revealed that it has a direct relationship with the volume of Egypt’s agricultural exports to six countries, which is consistent with the economic logic. So the search recommended to: developing the currently existing means of transportation between Egypt and each of the, Studying quality standards requirements of exports demanded by the COMESA markets thus paying attention to improving the quality of Egyptian exports to those markets, Seeking to on open new market windows for Egyptian agricultural exports . microcosm and unstable due to being affected by political issues from time to time. It only accounts for 7.2% of the volume of trade exchange between Egypt and the world. It was found that agricul
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