Egypt: The government imposes higher export duties on nitrogen fertilizers

Announcement

26 Dec 2016

On 26 December 2016, the Egyptian Ministry of Trade and Industry issued Ministerial Decree no. 1353/2016 increasing for one year the export duties applicable to nitrogen fertilizers. Later in 2017, one subheading was excluded. On 26 December 2017, Ministerial decree no. 1583/2017 was issued extending the duty level on all items above for one year without any changes.

Source

Number of interventions

1 certainly harmful

0 likely harmful

0 liberalising

List of interventions

Implementation date

26 Dec 2016

Revocation date:

16 Sep 2018

Updated: 26 Dec 2016

Export tax

On 26 December 2016, the Egyptian Ministry of Trade and Industry issued Ministerial Decree no. 1353/2016 increasing the export duties applicable to nitrogen fertilizers from 50 Egyptian Pounds (USD 2....