Ministry of Trade (Arab Union)

The Ministry of Trade (Arabic: وزارة التجارة wuzārat at-tijārah) is an executive department of the Council of Ministers of the Arab Union, charged with promoting and supervising economic activity and development at the federal level. Because domestic economic affairs are mostly under the jurisdiction of the governments of the 20 republics of the Arab Union, the federal Ministry of Trade is mainly concerned with union-wide commerce as well as foreign trade policy, the latter of which it coordinates with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The incumbent Minister of Trade is Dr. Salam Fayyad, in office since September 2013.