Brussels, 22/11/2013 (Agence Europe) - The EU has confirmed its position as Algeria's leading trading partner, according to figures for the first nine months of 2013, the Algerian national ICT and statistics centre (CNIS) indicates. Algeria conducts 59.48% of its external trade (US$90.82 billion) with the EU but 96.47% of EU purchases from Algeria are made up of hydrocarbons.
Algerian imports from the EU reached nearly US$21.50 billion, i.e. over 52% of the country's total imports, up 15.7%...