Wed 03/Sep/2025 – 01:41 PM
The Media Center of the Council of Ministers published a number of infographics through its platforms on social media, through which it reviewed the state’s efforts to activate the commodity stock exchange – Egypt, as a modern platform that enhances the transparency of pricing and supports the stability of local markets.
Council of Ministers: The commodity stock market is an organized market for the circulation of present goods and a mechanism for fair pricing through supply and demand
The commodity stock market is a strategic step to enhance food security, and to ensure the sustainability of providing basic commodities at fair prices, as it continues its contributions to organizing markets and controlling prices through transparent mechanisms that guarantee a fair price for strategic goods, achieve a balance between the interests of producers and consumers, and supports the agricultural sector, to become a pillar of building a strong trade system that serves the national economy.
The infographics indicated that the commodity stock market is an organized market for the circulation of present -wing goods, and it also represents an important mechanism for fair pricing through the interaction of the forces of supply and demand.
The trading of the commodity stock exchange includes 7 commodities: “Wheat – yellow corn – corn and apostasy – sugar – bran – soy -salt – salt”, along with some of the operations of the Holding Company for Food Industries, as well as the sources of the Department of Stamping and Budgets from “gold – silver – gemstones”.
The Stock Exchange also aims to regulate the trading of commodities within the framework of fair competitiveness and achieve pricing balance, with the display of goods with high quality specifications, in addition to reducing long supply chains in a way that contributes to reducing prices on the consumer.
The enfographs reviewed the mechanism of work on the commodity stock exchange, where the immediate trading and delivery of the goods circulated through electronic systems, and the trading mechanisms in the stock exchange are vary to include “auctions – tenders – practices and continuous trading” according to specifications determined by the parties.
Work is done according to steps that start by announcing the dates of opening sessions for circulating goods, then conducting a bidding or practice during the sessions, to end at a predetermined time with the trading limbs, with the implementation of trading operations according to the electronic trading mechanisms followed, and the completion of material and financial settlement procedures for trading operations.
Regarding the total trading on the commodity stock exchange at the end of July 2025, the infographics indicated that the amount of trading on the stock exchange amounted to 1.73 million tons with a total of 21.5 billion pounds, as the share of wheat imported from the total trading values reached 58.35%, at 12.5 billion pounds, white sugar 20.73% at 4.5 billion pounds, and the imported yellow corn 13.07% at 2.8 billion pounds, And the domestic bran is 4.47%, at 961 million pounds, 0.59% for imported yellow and bran at 126.6 million pounds, and 2.79% for other goods.
