Cairo – Mubasher: Egypt’s non-oil exports grew 1.7% year-on-year in May, the monthly report of the General Organization for Export & Import Control (GOEIC) showed.

Egyptian non-oil exports reached $2.28 billion in May, compared to $2.24 billion a year earlier, according to the Middle East News Agency (MENA).

The North African country’s non-oil exports in May included $1.781 billion in industrial goods and food commodities worth $506 million, GOEIC’s report found.

Egypt’s non-oil exports to Arab countries reached $792 million in the second month of the second quarter of 2019, while exports to the EU registered $701 million during the same period.