Brazil receives first shipment of Egyptian oranges

Since Brazil opened its market to Egyptian citrus last year in May, the first fruit is being exported from the Arab country to Brazil. The product has an import tax reduction to enter Mercosur countries market due to the South American bloc’s free trade agreement with Egypt. The tariff will be zeroed in September this year.

According to the new commercial consulate of Egypt in Brazil, Nashwa Bakr, two Egyptian companies have already exported oranges to Brazil since the market opened. “One sent nine containers, and the other 15 containers and the latter plans to send another 25 containers by the end of May,” said Bakr, who took over the post a little over a week ago at the Egyptian Commercial Office in São Paulo. “We are preparing a campaign with Brazilian importers and we are contacting supermarkets such as Pão de Açúcar and Dia,” Bakr told ANBA.

Egypt produced three million tons of oranges last year and exported half of the total production, or 1.5 million tons, consolidating itself as the largest orange exporter in the world, Bakr said. “The most popular destinations for Egyptian oranges were China, the European Union, and Arab countries,” she said. Most oranges are grown in Northern Egypt, close to the Nile River and the Mediterranean Sea, known as the Nile Delta.

The biggest competitors for Egyptian oranges in Brazil are the United States, China, Chile, and Argentina. “But we were the largest exporter of oranges last year, so we hope that in two or three years Brazil will be the largest importer of Egyptian oranges,” she said, positively evaluating the performance of Mercosur as a whole since the free trade agreement trade includes the four countries of the bloc (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay).

See the chart below for the main origins of oranges imported by Brazil:

Origins of Brazilian Orange Imports (HS 0805.1) | Jan to Dec 2020 | TEU

Origens das Importação Brasileiras de Laranja (HS 0805.1) | Jan a Dez 2020| TEU

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Report source: Brazil-Arab News Agency (ANBA)

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