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- Algeria: World Trade Outlook
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- World Trade Outlook 1992: Algeria
- Near East and South Asia Send Signals for Great Markets Now
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- <p>By Cherie Loustaunau
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- <p>Excerpt from World Trade Outlook 1992: Near East
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- <p> U.S. exports to Algeria decreased over $200 million in 1991
- to $727 million. The drop reflects Algeria's increasingly
- troublesome economic situation caused in part by lower oil
- prices and a debt service burden which has reached about 70
- percent. A recently concluded $1.5 billion syndicated
- refinancing facility with a French-led group of banks will
- reduce the country's debt burden. The Algerian government is
- also engaged in an economic reform program, which emphasizes
- strengthening the private sector and attracting more foreign
- investment. A new hydrocarbon investment law opens the oil and
- gas sector to foreign ownership with Algerian firms, and the
- involvement of large U.S. companies in new oil and gas projects
- offers opportunities for American firms to supply related goods
- and services.
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- <p>U.S. exports 1991--$727 million U.S. imports 1991--$2.1
- billion
- </p>
- <p> Algeria is in a period of political change, which has been
- accompanied by a number of violent incidents. Americans are
- advised to defer all non-essential travel to the country. If
- travel is necessary, avoid all public gatherings and
- demonstrations while in the country and register with the
- American Embassy in Algiers or the American Consulate in Oran.
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- <p>Source: International Trade Administration, Business America Magazine
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- </article>
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