آثار تجربة التكامل الاقتصادي الإقليمي في إطار الشراكة الأورو-جزائرية على تجارة الجزائر الخارجية

Abstract EN

Many transformations had occurred to the world economy in the last decades, not the least important a clear desire from countries to join regional economic integration blocks.

In keeping with this tendency and as a positive response to the euro-Mediterranean project initiated by the European union, Algeria has eventually signed a Euro-Mediterranean association agreement that entered into force in September 2005.

The agrement is based on the establishment of a free trade area between Algeria and the European union members, which will in time rebalance and boost trade transactions between the two parties, naturally Algeria's main objective is to promote and diversify its trade structure away from hydrocarbons; benefiting from a progressive elimination of tariffs, which in turn will multiply and diversify sources of value creation and foreign reserves.

The objectives of this study are to investigate the effects of the Euro-Algerian association agreement on Algeria's foreign trade balance, and whether it has achieved its planned goals from an algerian perspective; especially in regard to trade balance equilibrium and developing non-hydrocarbon exports.