The Impact of Implementing The African Free Trade Agreement on Agricultural Foreign Trade between Egypt and The Most Important African Countries

Abstract

The research mainly aimed to develop and increase African Free Trade Area by studying the impact of implementing the African Free Trade Agreement on agricultural foreign trade between Egypt and the most important African countries, by studying some of the sub-objectives, which are: studying the volume of agricultural trade exchange between Egypt and African countries, studying the relative importance imports of the most important agricultural commodities to African countries from the world, identifying Egypt’s promising opportunities in African markets, studying the relative importance of Egypt’s exports to African countries in relation to African imports of agricultural commodities, studying and identifying the most important factors affecting the flow of foreign agricultural trade between Egypt and the most important African countries, This is done by studying and analyzing agricultural foreign trade policies using the gravity model. The importance of the research was through identifying the expected impact of Egypt’s participation with the countries of the African Free Trade Area, which helps foreign trade policy makers in proposing and setting policies that help develop and increase intra-Egyptian trade, especially agricultural, using the gravity model. The research relied on the descriptive and quantitative analysis method required by the nature of this study. The EViews 9 program was also used to analyze the gravity model for agricultural trade between Egypt and African countries. The research also relied on secondary data through data published in various organizations, ministries and information centers in Egypt and some economic studies related to study subject are used.