Sisi comments on the cost of importing some non-essential goods: “She says

05:09 p.m

Saturday, October 12, 2024

Books – Muhammad Nassar:

President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi spoke about several “stimulating” goods and products imported from abroad, indicating that they represent promising opportunities for businessmen to set up these businesses in Egypt.

President Sisi, at the opening of the Upper Egypt railway station in the Bashteel district of Giza, today, Saturday, said: O business people, businessmen, banks, and those who work in investment , all the products that Egypt has imported over the past period, with all their numbers, are your chance to localize the business.

Al-Sisi said: When we talk about the $9 billion cost of importing mobile phones, as well as the cost of importing medicines, there are medicines that we may not be able to provide in Egypt, but I wonder if all the medicine we bring in. we cannot manufacture in Egypt.

The president continued: Instead of people responding to these words and making it in Egypt and getting into a maze with land, financing, and transferring technology from abroad to produce the to realize, they tell you to buy it easier, because the state is there. without trying to work really, firmly, and strictly.

He continued: You come to import perfumes, deodorants, and toilet water for 440 million dollars, cosmetics for 500 million, handbags for 200 million, chocolate for 400 million dollars, even ceramics, and you blame me and say why the dollar. We are not saying that we are closing the country so that people are not wrong, foil paper With 500 million dollars in imports, we cannot make foil paper.

The president continued: We import a billion and 200 million dollars worth of cheese, and we tell people we don’t know how to open factories to make the things people want. make us happen, not by me, or even by the entire minister’s team. These are all job opportunities to make these things happen.

The president continued: $25 billion to import cars. or a large percentage of them, to be made in Egypt, and this is not easy, and we will support it.