Brussels, 24/01/2014 (Agence Europe) - Trade between the EU and Algeria is making good progress, according to Algeria's national centre for data processing and statistics (CNIS), which has just published data for the year 2013. “The breakdown shows that EU countries still remain the main partners, with 52.11% of imports and 64.89% of exports” from Algeria. Compared to 2012, “imports have developed 8.54% to an overall value of US$28.58 billion, while exports” from Algeria to the EU have increased by 7.48%, i.e. US$42.77 billion, the statistical office points out. Algeria's five main clients in 2013 were Spain (US$10.33 billion), Italy (US$9 billion), Great Britain (US$7.19 billion), France (US$6.74 billion) and, finally, the USA with US$5.33 billion. With regard to the latter, the CNIS points out that exports plummeted by 50.51% in 2013 compared with 2012. On the other hand, with China, trade has reached “US$6.82 billion” and “for the first time has overtaken France which had topped the list of Algeria's main suppliers for years”. According to the same source, Algeria had a trade surplus, all destinations together, of US$11.06 billion (US billion) in 2013 compared to US$21.49 billion in 2012, down 48.51%.
According to the CNIS, “trade with the Maghreb countries (AMU) has increased by 30.97%, going from US$2.88 billion to US$3.77 billion. Finally, the countries of the Americas recorded a decline of 17.72%, going from US$7.82 billion in 2012 to US$6.43 billion in 2013”. With the Arab countries (outside AMU), trade notched up a considerable increase (+30.72%), with the overall volume of trade rising from US$2.51 billion to US$3.28 billion. (FB/transl.jl)