Elsooltaan Group highlights Egypt as most undervalued trade partner for Nigerian businesses

ELSOOLTAAN GROUP has drawn attention to what it describes as the most undervalued trade corridor available to Nigerian businesses: the Egypt–Nigeria route, arguing that while most Nigerian importers default to Dubai for Gulf sourcing, Egypt offers superior unit economics, direct manufacturing capacity, and AfCFTA tariff advantages that the UAE cannot match.

According to the company, Egypt is Africa’s third-largest economy with direct manufacturing capacity across pharmaceuticals, textiles, building materials, food processing, and industrial components — categories that West Africa currently imports at a significant premium from Europe and Asia.

“The African Continental Free Trade Area creates preferential tariff logic for Egypt-to-Nigeria sourcing that almost no other corridor on the continent can match. The businesses that build operational footholds in Egypt now, before the corridor becomes crowded, will hold a structural pricing and relationship advantage that late movers will find extraordinarily difficult to replicate,” the company stated.

Elsooltaan Group records building operational depth in Egypt, establishing verified supplier relationships, on-ground coordination, and C-suite matchmaking capability that allows Nigerian businesses to engage Egyptian manufacturers with the support of an experienced operator on the other side of every deal.

The Group, which is registered in Egypt + RAKEZ with operations spanning six countries, noted that its Egypt corridor services are designed for both SMEs entering the market for the first time and enterprise buyers seeking to diversify sourcing beyond the UAE.