Market Intelligence

Construction Materials

• Cement & Clinker (HS 2523.29) — Portland cement export, EN 197-1 + ASTM C150 grades, MTC documentation
• Gypsum & Plaster of Paris (HS 2520) — natural + calcined gypsum, drywall + cement-board grades

Minerals & Salt

• Industrial Salt (Bulk NaCl) — chlor-alkali, deicing, water treatment, oilfield grades
• Mining Companies in Egypt — gold, phosphate, iron, gypsum, marble, silica directory

Agriculture & Fertilizers

• NPK Fertilizers (HS 3105) — urea, AN, CAN, DAP, NPK compound blends
• Palm Oil (HS 1511) — CPO + RBD palm imports, refining capacity
• Vegetable Oils (HS 1507–1515) — soybean, sunflower, corn, GASC tenders

HS code references

• HS 2501 — Salt — sub-headings, MFN duty by destination, grade-to-sub-code mapping
• HS 2520 — Gypsum & Plaster — raw vs calcined, duty by destination
• HS 2523 — Cement & Clinker — clinker, white, other Portland, duty by destination
• HS 3105 — Compound Fertilizer — NPK, DAP, MAP, TSP mapping

Chemicals

• Caustic Soda (NaOH) — chlor-alkali, flakes, liquid 50%

• Cement & clinker

  Commodity / HSHS 2523.29 / 2523.10
  Headline metric76 million t/yr capacity; about 18.5 million t exported in 2025, 12.5 million t as finished cement
  Matched EGG supplycement & clinker

• Gypsum & plaster

  Commodity / HSHS 2520.10 / 2520.20
  Headline metricUS$64.3 M exported in 2024, 5th in the world; Nigeria and Ghana the largest markets
  Matched EGG supplygypsum

• Industrial salt

  Commodity / HSHS 2501
  Headline metricRock salt ≥ 97 % NaCl, 7 export ports, MOQ 240 MT FCL / 2,000–65,000 MT vessel
  Matched EGG supplybulk salt · industrial grade

• Mining companies in Egypt

  Commodity / HSMinerals
  Headline metricGold, phosphate, iron, salt, gypsum, limestone, silica directory
  Matched EGG supplyindustrial minerals

• NPK fertilizer

  Commodity / HSHS 3102 / 3103 / 3104 / 3105
  Headline metricUrea 7+ million MT/yr, MENA's second-largest fertilizer producer
  Matched EGG supplyfertilizers

• Palm oil

  Commodity / HSHS 1511
  Headline metric890,411 t imported in 2024 — Indonesia 65 %, Malaysia 35 %
  Matched EGG supplyedible oils

• Vegetable oils

  Commodity / HSHS 1507–1515
  Headline metric2.49 million t of palm, soybean and sunflower oil for food, MY 2025/26 (USDA)
  Matched EGG supplyedible oils · oilseeds

• Caustic soda

  Commodity / HSNaOH
  Headline metric275,000 t/y at the largest producer; 223,818 t of liquid caustic exported in 2024
  Matched EGG supplychlor-alkali salt · industrial chemicals

Egypt Globe Group positions itself as your verified, long-term supply-chain ally: incorporated 2014 with an internal Quality Assurance division at its nucleus, ISO 9001:2015 across all divisions, and uncompromising QA verification from extraction to destination port. Every lot is tested at the loading-port laboratory and the Certificate of Analysis or Mill Test Certificate is issued before the Bill of Lading; lots outside specification are rejected at the loading port, never re-graded or renegotiated. Independent inspection by TÜV Austria, SGS, Intertek or Bureau Veritas (all ISO/IEC 17020 + 17025) is available on every shipment, laycans are run with documented NOR / SOF, and the specification is guaranteed at the port of loading under the sales contract — see inspection & quality control, trade documentation and quality & compliance.

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