АНАЛИЗ СТРУКТУРЫ ЭКСПОРТА И ИМПОРТА АЛЖИРА

Abstract

In the context of the trends of integration and internationalization characteristic of the world economy, it seems natural to be interested in assessing the role and nature of the participation of individual countries in world trade. With the reduction of barriers to trade, the expansion of the totality of integration associations (including global ones, the WTO format), participation in world trade as a factor of economic growth plays an increasingly important role for developed and developing countries. An important feature of the participation of countries in world trade is the formed structure of exports and imports, reflecting the state of competitiveness of the national economy, the nature of participation in the world market and, in some cases, the chosen model of economic growth. Historically, the formation of the sectoral and commodity structure of Algeria's exports was influenced by factors that were not fully favorable for the country. During the period of colonial management of the Algerian economy by France (until the 1960s), the export structure was mainly represented by agricultural products entering the French market. Subsequently, hydrocarbons dominate the export structure. The current state of export-import relations is being influenced by negative factors in the form of a decrease in world prices for energy resources (the main commodity exported by the country), stagnation in the target markets of the country's foreign economic activity (EU). At the same time, for Algeria, the stability of economic development, as well as the level of development of public finances, largely depends on the stability of energy supplies. For this reason, there is some interest in both the impact on the state of the country's foreign trade activity of the consequences of the deterioration of the macroeconomic conjuncture of the energy market, and the likely changes in the structure of Algeria's export-import relations, which could reduce dependence on the state of the energy market.