The new system seeks to provide one window through which exporters and importers can finalise all documentation procedures and reduce the timeframe of releasing products from ports (Image:File/Photo)CAIRO - 23 October 2021: The Cabinet’s information center denied reports circulated about a shortage in the available basic food commodities in markets nationwide. The center said in a Saturday statement that it contacted the Supply and Internal Trade Ministry which dismissed the news as baseless. The ministry asserted that all basic food commodities are normally available in markets and large quantities of them are pumped nationwide. The strategic stockpile of basic food commodities is sufficient for several months, it said. A number of countries are commercially dependent for their exports on one or two commodities, and sometimes these commodities may represent 60 percent or more of their total exports.
