Import guide · United States
Importing marble and granite from Egypt to the USA
Eight steps, from the quotation to the container at your port.
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What happens next: you get FOB and CIF prices with photographs of the actual material, and nothing is loaded until you have approved it.
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- Our own factory in Alexandria: six Italian machines, nothing subcontracted
- Minimum order: one 20 ft container, stones and thicknesses mixed
- Loading at Alexandria, Port Said or Sokhna
- Photos of your slabs before loading
- Invoice, packing list, bill of lading and certificate of origin with every container
- Watch the factory
For distributors, fabricators and contractors in the United States. Written from the exporter's side by Wesha Stones, a family business in Alexandria since 1991.
United States at a glance
- Port of entry
- Alexandria → New York, Savannah, Houston or Miami
- Sea leg from Egypt
- 18 – 28 days port to port
- Terms we quote
- FOB Alexandria or CIF the US port. Customs clearance and inland haulage are yours or your broker's.
- Origin paperwork
- Certificate of origin with every container
- Minimum order
- 1 × 20 ft container, stones and thicknesses mixed
- Stones it buys from Egypt
- Aswan Red, Gandola, New Halayeb, Black Aswan
Beige and cream marble for residential flooring and hospitality, dark granite for worktops. American buyers who have been importing from Turkey or Brazil use Egyptian beige to widen the range at a lower landed cost.
The eight steps
Choose the stone
Send the name your market knows the stone by, or a photograph, and we match it to the blocks we can supply. Every stone has its own page with its colour, origin, finishes and formats.
Egyptian marble · Egyptian granite · cut-to-size · floor tiles · countertops
Send what the quotation needs
The stone, the finish, the thickness and quantity of each item and your port — or the bill of quantities or the drawing as it is. The full checklist
Get the quotation
Item by item, with the number of containers: FOB Alexandria or CIF the US port. Customs clearance and inland haulage are yours or your broker's. Usually within one working day. What sets the price of Egyptian marble and granite
Pay in three stages
50 % in advance, on order; 30 % after your approval of the finished production; 20 % before shipping.
Approve the stone before it ships
Photographs of your actual slabs or bundles, or an inspection at the factory, before the 30 % is paid and before anything is loaded.
Loading the 20 ft container
About 421 m² of 2 cm granite or 429 m² of 2 cm marble per 20 ft, on a 25 t payload with packing. A 20 ft container carries about 25 tonnes at sea, but US road limits usually allow less once it sits on a chassis, and the limit depends on the state and the trucker's equipment. Tell us the cargo weight your trucker can take and we load to it, with the loaded weight confirmed before the container leaves Alexandria. Every thickness
Shipping to the United States
Alexandria → New York, Savannah, Houston or Miami: 18 – 28 days port to port.
Transit times are indicative port-to-port sailing times and exclude customs and inland haulage. Confirm at booking — they move with the season and the service.
Documents, duty and clearance in the United States
With every container: the commercial invoice, the packing list and the bill of lading, and a certificate of origin. Customs clearance at your end is yours or your broker's.
ASTM rather than EN: C503 for marble, C615 for granite, C97 for absorption and density, C170 for compressive strength, C99 for modulus of rupture. Say at quotation stage that the specification is written to ASTM, because EN figures are not what a US specifier will accept. For the stone you select we arrange water absorption, flexural strength and abrasion tests at an accredited laboratory.
Stones the United States buys from Egypt
Each stone has its own page: colour, origin, finishes, formats and how much fits in a container.
Real photo
Aswan Red
The historic red granite of the pharaohs, still quarried today.
Aswan360° →
Real photo
Gandola
Pink feldspar and black mica over a pale grey ground, coarse and even.
Aswan360° →
New Halayeb
Grey-white ground with large, densely packed black crystals.
Halayeb360° →
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Black Aswan
Dense black with a subtle grey crystal.
Aswan360° →
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Galala Classic
Egypt's flagship beige — warm, even and quarried in volume.
Galala Mountain360° →
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Sunny Menia
Golden honey ground with fine horizontal movement.
Minya Governorate360° →
Egyptian marble and granite for the United States: route, documents and the stones that sell
Importing to the USA: questions
Can the stone be tested to ASTM?
Ask at quotation stage rather than after production. For the stone you select we arrange water absorption, flexural strength and abrasion tests at an accredited laboratory.
Do you ship LCL?
No — full containers only. We consolidate several stones into one container if that is what it takes to fill it.
Who handles customs?
You or your broker. We supply the commercial invoice, packing list, bill of lading and certificate of origin.
Minimum order, payment, samples, tests and where the blocks come from are answered once for every country in the step-by-step guide.
How to import marble and granite from Egypt, step by step · Export, documents and payment
Importing to the USA?
Send the stone, the finish, the thickness, the quantity and the destination port. You get FOB and CIF prices, usually within one working day.
We reply within one working day · Saturday – Thursday, 08:00 – 18:00 Cairo time · WhatsApp +20 106 926 2572
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Family business since 1991 · Factory in Alexandria · 50 % in advance · 30 % on approval after production · 20 % before shipping · Reply within one working day