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Spain is the fourth provider of the country norteafricano

Algeria, a market with potential for our industry of the plastic

Editorial Interempresas12/06/2012

12 June 2012

The disarmament arancelario tackled by Algeria in relation to his imports from the EU, the geographic vicinity and the good communications between both countries place it in an excellent position like objective market for the sector of the plastic of our country.

With the entrance in force of the Agreement Euromediterráneo of Association EU-Algeria, has initiated a dismantlement arancelario that has supposed for 40% of the industrial products the supresión of the tariff from 1/9/2005; for 21,5% of the industrial products said dismantlement will realise in 7 years and for 38,5% remaining in 12 years. Spain besides enjoys of an excellent positioning like country put that, according to data of 2010, are the fourth provider of the Algerian market with a quota of the market of 6,5%.

Photo: Robert Proksa.

According to data of the economic and commercial office of Spain in Algiers, Algeria mattered of Spain in 2010, 34.540 (thousands of euros) in the game 40506 —containers and packagings and 3.422 (thousands of euros) in machinery for said application. After suffering a desaceleración because of the impact of the world-wide recession and to the fall of the price of the oil and of the gas, the growth of Algeria has recovered in 2010-2011 (5% in nominal terms in 2011), promoted by a recovery of the demand in the sector of the hydrocarbons and the dynamism of the service sector and the one of the construction and thank you also to the support of the program of public investments (PIP).

Algerian external trade by products.

The plan quinquenal 2010-2014 does upsetting in the modernisation of the infrastructures and the privatisation of the economy. The dependency of the hydrocarbons of the Algerian economy represents a potential brake for the sustainable development of the country.

General economic profile of the country

general Data country (2011)

GDP: 264,1 trillion dollars

real Growth of the GDP: 2,9%

per capita GDP: 7.200 dollars

GDP by sectors (2011)

Agriculture: 8,1%
Industry: 61,6%
Services: 30,2%

Tax of unemployment (2011) 9,7%

Tax of inflation (2011) 4%

The agriculture supposes roughly 12% of the GDP and employs to a fifth part of the active population. Algeria is a big producer of cork and an important criador of livestock. The industry represents almost 55% of the GDP, where the sector of the oil and of the gas represents the majority of the budgetary income and the almost whole of the income by export. Algeria is the second exporting elder of gas of the world. Algeria matters fundamentally goods of equipment, alimentary products and goods of consumption, and exports almost exclusively oil, gas and derivative products.

According to calculations of the CCI based in statistics of A Comtrade, one of the games arancelarias with greater growth between 2010 and 2011 with 19,95% have been the plastic raw materials and his manufacturas, data that definitely puts of self-evident the commercial possibilities of our industry in the country.

Data of the sector of the Algerian plastic

Companies: 2.200 (SMEs in his majority)
Hard-working: 20.000
annual Consumption of plastic: 1 million of tonnes
annual Growth of the sector: 4-5%

Fair Plast Alger 2012

This year, and in his second edition, celebrates in the Algerian capital the fair of the plastic sector, Plast Alger of the 24 to 27 September. The big potential of the market joined to the increasing interest of our industry has propiciado the participation grouped in this fair, that coordinates Valencian Association of Employers of plastics (Avep), and has the support and the economic aid of the Institute of Spanish Trade – Icex.

Data of the fair