The objective of this study is to determine the most important
affected factors of the Egyptian imports from food vegetable oils, such as
cotton seed oil, Groundnut oil, Mize germ oil, olive oil, palm oil, Sesame seed
oil, soybean oil and sunflower seed oil totally through (1980-1999) period.
The study achieve the following results: The value of Egyptian exports and the local production from food
vegetable oils were the most affected factors of the Egyptian imports from
food vegetable oils, They explained 81 %, 87% of the total changes food
vegetable oils, in the linear and logarithmic models respectively. The linear regression model reveled that million L.E increase in the
value of Egyptian exports leads to 17 ton increase in the Egyptian imports
quantity from food vegetable oils whereas 1000 metric tons increase in local
production leads to 2850 ton decrease in the quantity imported from food
vegetable oils. The ogarithmic ode I evealed hat n ncrease f bout 0% n he
Egyptian exports value leads to about 1.77% increase in the quantity
imported from food vegetable oils, whereas, 10% increase in local production
from food vegetable oils leads to about 6.46% decrease in the quantity import
from food vegetable oils.