A foreigner or an MRE investing in Morocco can freely repatriate the proceeds from a resale, subject to one decisive condition: proving that the transaction was financed in foreign currency. An improperly routed payment can cause this guarantee to be lost.
British goods exports to Morocco reached £2.153 billion in the first half of 2026. In just six months, they exceeded by £667 million the amount recorded during the entire previous year.
Electricity consumption rose by 8.4% in Morocco in the first half of 2026, while national production increased by only 1.6%. This gap was accompanied by a 34.6% surge in imports.
Morocco’s imports of parts for passenger cars now exceed those of the cars themselves. As of the end of July 2026, their value reached 24.6 billion dirhams, compared with 23.2 billion for imported vehicles.
To finance a trip abroad, a Moroccan resident can convert up to 100,000 dirhams each year under the basic allowance, or around 9,300 euros. In Algeria, the limit is set at 750 euros for an adult: a difference of more than twelvefold.
Moroccans residing abroad have never contributed so much to the Moroccan economy. Their transfers are continuing to accelerate in 2026. But this strength also creates a vulnerability: a large share of this money comes from Europe, where new banking rules are now forcing Rabat to negotiate in order to preserve these flows.
Moroccans residing abroad transferred 61.5 billion dirhams to Morocco in the first half of 2026. Over the same period, the country’s energy bill reached 68.6 billion. A gap that did not yet exist a year earlier.
The beginning of summer was less dynamic than expected for exchange offices in Morocco . Despite the arrival of Moroccans Abroad, the volume of transactions fell in July compared with the same periods in previous years, before picking up again in early August.
The Foreign Exchange Office is scrutinizing 37 cases involving Moroccan exporters and investors. Inspectors suspect that some of them understated their income and kept part of their profits outside the Kingdom.
Tourism revenues surpassed transfers from Moroccans residing abroad during the first half of 2026. The gap, almost nonexistent one year earlier, has now reached 3.4 billion dirhams.
Moroccan automotive exports reached 93.7 billion dirhams in the first half of 2026. They now represent more than double the sales of phosphates and derivatives.
Moroccan imports of aircraft and other airborne or spacecraft vehicles more than doubled in the first half of 2026. Their value reached nearly four billion dirhams.