Governmental data monitored an increase in the value of Egyptian medicine imports in the recent period, as the value of imports of medicines and pharmaceuticals amounted to about 247 million and 751 thousand dollars in last December, compared to 217 million and 975 thousand dollars in December 2019, with an increase of about 29 million And 776 thousand dollars, an increase of 13.7%.
The data issued by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics showed that pharmacy imports came within the Egyptian imports of non-durable consumer goods, whose total value amounted to about one billion and 97 million dollars last December, compared to one billion and 220 million dollars in the same month in 2019, with a decline of its value. About 122 million and 775 thousand dollars.
The list of the most important non-durable consumer goods imports included live cows and buffaloes with a value of 4 million and 305 thousand dollars last December, while the same month of 2019 did not witness any import of cows, then imports of milk and its products, which amounted to 47 million and 155 thousand dollars last December, As compared to 83 million and 979 thousand dollars in the same month in 2019, a decrease of 36 million and 824 thousand dollars.
The Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics said that the trade balance deficit decreased in its value last December, as the trade balance deficit reached $ 3.28 billion during December 2020, compared to $ 3.81 billion for the same month of the previous year, a decrease of 14%.
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