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PRESS/TPRB/250 
26 July 2005 
 
(05-3332) 
TRADE POLICY REVIEW: EGYPT 
Continued trade and structural reforms could improve Egypt’s 
economic performance  
Exports of goods and services have been a moto r for the current economic recovery of Egypt, 
according to a WTO Secretariat report on the trade policies and practices of Egypt.  
The report notes that continued trade and structural reforms, including further privatization, which 
had lost some of its momentum at the beginning of the millennium, would help to put the economy on a higher growth path. 
 
The WTO Secretariat report also underlines that reforms that would simplify the tariff structure and reduce applied rates so as to substantially narrow the gap between bound and applied tariffs 
should contribute to enhance the predictabili ty and transparency of Egypt’s trade regime. 
 The WTO report, along with a policy statement by Eg ypt, will be the basis for the third Trade Policy 
Review (TPR) of Egypt by the Trade Policy Revi ew Body of the WTO on 26 and 28 of July 2005. 
 The following documents are available in MS Wo rd format on the WTO web-site. They can be 
downloaded at http://www.wto.org/english/ tratop_e/tpr_e/tp250.htm  
 • Secretariat report 
> Contents and summary observations  
> Economic environment  > Trade and investment regimes  
> Trade policies and practices by measure  
> Trade policies by sector  > Appendix tables  
• Government report  
• Chairperson’s concluding remarks  
• Minutes of the meeting (available appr oximately six weeks after the meeting). 
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Note 
Trade Policy Reviews are an exercise, mandated in the WTO agreements, in which member countries’ trade and related policies are examined and evaluated at regular intervals. Significant 
developments that may have an impact on the global trading system are also monitored. For each 
review, two documents are prepared: a policy stat ement by the government of the member under 
review, and a detailed report written independently by the WTO Secretariat. These two documents are then discussed by the WTO’s full membership in  the Trade Policy Review Body (TPRB). These 
documents and the proceedings of the TPRB’s meetings are published shortly afterwards.  
 Print copies of the TPR publications are available for sale from the WTO Secretariat, Centre William 
Rappard, 154 rue de Lausanne, 1211 Genève 21 and through the on-line bookshop at 
https://secure.vtx.ch/shop/boutiques/wto_index_boutique.html  or follow this path :  
www.wto.org >resources > publications > trade policy reviews  
 
The TPR publications are also available from our co-publisher Bernan Press , 4611-F Assembly Drive, Lanham, MD 20706-4391, United States 
 
Next reviews: 
Trinidad and Tobago : 14 and 16 September 2005 
Tunisia : 28 and 30 September 2005 
Guinea and Togo : 12 and 14 October 2005 
 
For a full list of previous trade policy reviews and the full programme of future reviews go to 
http://www.wto.org/english/trat op_e/tpr_e/tpr_ e.htm#reviews 
or follow this path : www.wto.org > trade topics > trade policy reviews 
 
 
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