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This is a straight one-year renewal of a specific (per-unit, not ad-valorem) export-duty schedule Egypt has run on feed-input categories since at least 2017 (GTA state-act 37617 covered a prior iteration). The 2025 renewal (Decision 504/2025) keeps the rate structure essentially intact: fixed EGP-per-ton charges on straw, bran, and plant residues, with a USD-denominated rate ($60/ton) on alfalfa/barsim specifically — likely reflecting alfalfa's role as a higher-value, more export-oriented forage crop versus the domestically-consumed straw/bran categories. Rice straw and rice bran are carved out, consistent with Egypt's separate rice-sector export policy (Egypt has historically restricted rice exports directly rather than taxing rice by-products).
The duty functions as a soft export brake rather than a ban: covered volumes can still leave the country, but at an added per-ton cost that narrows the arbitrage against Egypt's domestic feed market, which has been under persistent price pressure from EGP depreciation and import-cost inflation on compound feed.
This is a renewal of an existing measure (not a new restriction) at essentially unchanged rates, covering a narrow set of low-value bulk agricultural by-products (straw, bran, silage, forage) rather than a primary grain or protein commodity. Egypt is not a major global exporter of these specific categories — the duty is a domestic supply-protection instrument aimed at Egypt's own livestock/poultry sector rather than a lever with material global-market impact. This sits well below Egypt's own nitrogen-fertilizer export duty (2026-05-04-egypt-decision-190-nitrogen-fertilizer-export-duty, severity 3, a genuine top-7-global-exporter product) and far below major-producer grain/rice export actions elsewhere in the food-security-export-controls theme (India rice/sugar/onion bans, Russia grain quotas). Quant basis reflects the disclosed per-ton EGP and USD rates.
to keep these by-products in the domestic market, moderating local feed-cost inflation for Egypt's poultry and dairy sectors, which have faced repeated feed-cost shocks since 2022.
Jordan, UAE flagged as affected trading partners) — a marginal cost increase on Egyptian-sourced straw/forage imports; these partners have alternative Mediterranean/Gulf sourcing options, so substitution risk is low.
preserves Egypt's value-added feed-processing/export free-zone model, so the duty is targeted at raw/bulk export rather than processed feed-product export.
any per-ton rate versus the prior (2024/2023) iteration of this duty schedule — secondary sources describe it as a continuation ("استمرار") rather than an increase, but the full amendment history is only visible in the Arabic gazette text.
renewed again, consistent with Egypt's pattern of rolling forward this duty annually since 2017.