WTO notification · TBT
EgyptProposed measure, may since have been adopted
Official title
The Ministerial Decree No. 6/2025 (2 pages, in Arabic) mandating the Egyptian standard ES 189-4/2018 (Partial modification 2022) for ' Alcoholic Beverages -Part: 4 Other Fermented Alcoholic Beverages Except Beer and Wine '
Egypt notified this proposed TBT measure to the WTO on 12 November 2025. The comment period closed on 11 January 2026.
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Alcoholic beverages
The comment period closed on 11 January 2026. You can still raise concerns about the measure with your country's WTO TBT enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/TBT/N/EGY/565; it can take them up with Egypt.
Find your country's enquiry point on WTO ePing (opens in a new tab)The Ministerial Decree No. 6/2025 gives the producers and importers a six-month transitional period to abide by the Egyptian standard ES 189-4/2018 which specifies the basic requirements and descriptive standards for Other Fermented Alcoholic Beverages Except Beer and Wine. Worth mentioning is that this standard complies with the following: KS /EAS 143: 2014 'Kenya/ East African Standard 'Brandy — Specification'. International code of oenological practices (Issue 01/ 2016)- International organization of Vine and Wine (OIV).
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