{"id":31951,"date":"2025-12-04T09:37:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T09:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/?p=31951"},"modified":"2025-12-24T09:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:41:11","slug":"jba-egyptian-ambassador-push-to-reactivate-bilateral-business-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/jba-egyptian-ambassador-push-to-reactivate-bilateral-business-council\/","title":{"rendered":"JBA, Egyptian Ambassador push to reactivate bilateral Business Council"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"31951\" class=\"elementor elementor-31951\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3c6fca65 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"3c6fca65\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-406714b9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"406714b9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"line-height: 19.5pt; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 18.75pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #2c2f34;\">The Jordanian Businessmen Association (JBA) discussed reactivating the Jordanian-Egyptian Business Council early next year during a meeting between its chairman, Ayman Al-Alawneh, and Egypt\u2019s ambassador to Jordan, Khaled Al-Abyad, the JBA said on Saturday<\/span><\/p><p style=\"line-height: 19.5pt; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 18.75pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #2c2f34;\">Alawneh stressed the need to strengthen economic ties and expand joint investments, saying the council would offer a key platform for the private sector to coordinate, identify opportunities and deepen trade and industrial cooperation. He urged addressing obstacles to trade, particularly shipping and transport costs.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"line-height: 19.5pt; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 18.75pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #2c2f34;\">Ambassador Al-Abyad said relations between the two countries are strong and that the embassy is ready to facilitate trade flows, support Jordanian exports to Egypt and help resolve challenges facing the movement of goods.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"line-height: 19.5pt; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 18.75pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #2c2f34;\">Bilateral trade reached $1 billion in 2024, up from $867 million in 2023, while Egyptian investments in Jordan stood at $4 million, down from $7.8 million a year earlier.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"line-height: 19.5pt; background: white; margin: 0in 0in 18.75pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 11.5pt; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; color: #2c2f34;\">Board members Bashar Al-Zoubi, Hassan Al-Tabbaa, Salah Al-Bitar, and Director General Tariq Hijazi also attended the meeting<\/span><\/p><p data-start=\"379\" data-end=\"406\">\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Jordanian Businessmen Association (JBA) discussed reactivating the Jordanian-Egyptian Business Council early next year during a meeting between its chairman, Ayman Al-Alawneh, and Egypt\u2019s ambassador to Jordan, Khaled Al-Abyad, the JBA said on Saturday Alawneh stressed the need to strengthen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31854,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2025-en","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31951","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=31951"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31964,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31951\/revisions\/31964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jba.com.jo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}