45% of imported goods are Algerian-made products

Numerous networks of Algerian operators are dumping the Algerian market with local-made products including textiles, clothes, electronics and cars’ spare parts supposedly imported from various foreign countries, reliable sources revealed.

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• This “business” represents 45% of the overall national production costing billions of dollars to the treasury according to experts.
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• The investigations carried out by different units for the fight against economic crimes reveal that the textile industry is taking the lead in this illegal business, since various pseudo- operators travel to Turkey, Italy, Spain and China with Algerian products to import them back to Algeria as foreign ones.
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• One of the investors has revealed that Algerian made products bearing with the world famous
• Brand “Pierre Cardin” were exported to Tunisia and Spain to be imported again to Algeria, but these products were made in the popular compounds of “Bab Azzoun” and “Casbah” here in Algiers.
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• Cars’ spare parts and household electrical appliances including TV sets and fridges are sold on the Algerian market undercover of Chinese and Korean tint to mislead the Algerian consumer, while in reality they were produces in the Algerian plant of Bordj Bouaareridj (eastern Algeria).
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• The famous Algerian dates “Deglet Nour” is smuggled to Tunisia, Italia, Spain and even Morocco to be packed in different ways and imported again to Algeria as being a foreign high quality product.
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• This date is smuggled by a Mafia to Israel which exports it by its turn to European countries under the brand “Bate Chiffa” and “Jordan Rivers” affiliated to “Acrisco” company.
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