Badash, Abd al-Karim

Abstract EN

At the beginning the research highlighted the path of the Algerian economic relations with the Arab, Maghreb and European countries.

Then the research studied and analyzed the Algerian exports and imports of merchandises during the period 2000-2018.

The study conducted has concluded that the first and essential territorial trend of the Algerian foreign trade is the European countries then the American countries in the second place, then the non-Arab Asian countries in the third place.

The Arab region comes at the end of the rankings, with only 4% of exports or imports during the period covered by the research.

The research also pointed out the weakness of the Algerian-Arab trade exchange despite the fact that Algeria has joined the great Arab Free Trade Area.

This weakness is mainly due to the export of nearly a single product (hydrocarbons) by Algeria, which is not in fact demanded by the most Arab countries.

Moreover, the lack of nearly all the important industrial goods imported by Algeria in the Arab economies is also within the major reason of this weakness.