Egypt’s engineering exports at all-time high

• Record exports of $6.5bn in 2025
• Saudi Arabia top market
• Ready-made clothes exports surge

Egypt’s export of equipment, electronics and other engineering industries climbed to its highest ever level of around $6.5 billion in 2025, with Saudi Arabia emerging as the top destination market.

The value of those exports rose 13 percent year on year in 2025, as a result of export campaigns and project expansions.

“The value of Egypt’s engineering exports has rapidly grown over the past years to reach its highest ever level in 2025,” said Sherif El Sayyad, chairman of the Engineering Export Council of Egypt (EECE).

In comments on the EECE website, El Sayyad said the increase last year was driven by a surge of around 30 percent in the export of machinery and equipment, 23 percent in electrical appliances and electronics, 15 percent in auto parts, 14 percent in transport items, 15 percent in home appliances and an unprecedented 273 percent in metals.

Saudi Arabia emerged as the top market for Egyptian engineering exports, with a value of $855 million last year, the EECE said, adding that Saudi Arabia imported mostly building equipment and electricals.

The UK was ranked second, with an import value of about $551 million, while Turkey and the UAE were the third and fourth largest markets for such exports, with the value of their imports standing at $550 million and $377 million respectively.

Egypt’s non-oil exports have recorded increases over the past two years due to new government incentives, more projects and expansion of existing factories.

The Arab country’s ready-made clothes exports surged by nearly 22 percent in 2025 and are expected to hit a record $4.4 billion in 2026 after the commissioning of new projects, the apparel export council said last week.

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In its latest Purchasing Managers Index report published on Tuesday, the US S&P Global financial intelligence company said business activity across the Egyptian non-oil private sector continued to rise at the start of this year, extending the longest streak of expansion seen since late-2020.

However, the expansion came amid easing demand conditions, with companies putting more work into clearing backlogs, the PMI report said.

“Positively, cost pressures remain weak and even softened in January, with total input costs rising at the joint-slowest pace in 10 months,” said David Owen, senior economist at S&P Global Market Intelligence.

“This enabled firms to cut their own charges for the first time in five and a half years, which will hopefully instil greater confidence in clients to release spending,”