{"id":26700,"date":"2018-10-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/jordanian-investments-in-egypt-estimated-at-2b\/"},"modified":"2024-07-01T13:31:39","modified_gmt":"2024-07-01T13:31:39","slug":"jordanian-investments-in-egypt-estimated-at-2b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/jordanian-investments-in-egypt-estimated-at-2b\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordanian investments in Egypt estimated at $2b"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">AMMAN \u2014 Jordan&#8217;s total investment in Egypt amounts currently to $2 billion through 1,117 companies working in the fields of industry, finance, services, agriculture, construction, communications, information technology and tourism.<\/p>\n<p>These figures were revealed on Monday by Minister of State for Investment Affairs Muhannad Shehadeh as he inaugurated the Jordan-Egypt Investment Forum, organised by the Jordan Businessmen Association in Amman.<\/p>\n<p>The value of Egyptian investments benefitting from the investment law in Jordan amounts to $1 billion through 499 companies working in services, investment, commerce, tourism, industry, finance and banking sectors.<\/p>\n<p>President of the Jordan Businessmen Association Hamdi Tabbaa noted in his remarks that the Jordanian private sector is still waiting for the implementation of the Higher Jordanian Egyptian Committee&#8217;s decision to grant a 50 per cent discount on Suez Canal fees to Jordanian exports and imports. <\/p>\n<p>Tabbaa called for real efforts to enhance cooperation and increase trade exchange between the two countries&#8217; private sectors. <\/p>\n<p>Jordanian exports to Egypt reached JD80 million last year, whereas imports stood at JD 336 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMMAN \u2014 Jordan&#8217;s total investment in Egypt amounts currently to $2 billion through 1,117 companies working in the fields of industry, finance, services, agriculture, construction, communications, information technology and tourism. These figures were revealed on Monday by Minister of State&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2018-en","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}