This Trade Update focuses on Algeria, Egypt and Mauritania’s (AEM) industrialisation approach and highlights key sectors and drivers of these countries’ industrialisation efforts. These AEM countries have, in recent years, increasingly focused on Africa’s regional integration initiatives and are all active participants in promoting intra-Africa trade under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) negotiations. They see the sub-Saharan African region as a key market for expansion after decades of focus on the Middle East and Europe. Egypt and Mauritania have joined other regional economic communities (RECs) to integrate with sub-Saharan African countries. Egypt is a member of the Common Market for East and Southern Africa (COMESA). Mauritania was a founding member of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). It withdrew from ECOWAS in 2000 but signed an Association Agreement with this REC in 2017, allowing it to participate in the ECOWAS provisional offer of tariff concessions in the AfCFTA negotiations.