The Algerian customs authorities have published foreign trade figures for the first nine months of 2013. The country\u2019s first supplier is China, with 4.95 billion USD, or 11.98% of total Algerian imports. Next is France, historically the country\u2019s leading supplier, with 4.70 billion dollars, or 11.37% of the total. Italy has regained the third place, which it had lost in the first half of the year, with 3.95 billion (9.57%), slightly ahead of Spain\u2019s 3.93 billion (9.52%). <\/P>
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The European Union continues to be Algeria\u2019s principal trading partner, accounting for 52% of the country\u2019s imports for a value of 21.5 billion, and for 65.7% of its exports. Algeria\u2019s main customers (mainly for natural gas and oil) are also European: led by Spain, with 7.47 billion, or 15% of total exports, followed by Italy, with 6.94 billion (14%). <\/P>
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Our country has reduced its imports from Algeria by 23.5% on the same period in 2012, thus confirming the downwards trend, especially for gas. In the first nine months of 2013 Algerian imports<\/A> amounted to 41.33 billion dollars, compared with exports, mainly of oil and gas, worth 49.5 billion, making a trade surplus of 8.17 billion. Source: infoMercatiEsteri. Read more, in Italian<\/A>, from China, Ferrero, Chile, Holland and Fincantieri.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Algerian customs authorities have published foreign trade figures for the first nine months of 2013. The country\u2019s first supplier is China, with 4.95 billion USD, or 11.98% of total Algerian imports. Next is France, historically the country\u2019s leading supplier, with 4.70 billion dollars, or 11.37% of the total. Italy has regained the third place, […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-14983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-approfondimenti","tag-mediterraneo-e-medio-oriente"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}