Algeria, EU Start Sixth Round Negotiations on Tariff Dismantling

Algeria and the European Union (EU) held on Monday in Algiers the 6th round of negotiations on tariff dismantling, under the Association Agreement linking both parties since 2005, APS reported.

The fifth round held last June in Brussels failed to bring closer views between Algeria and EU to postpone the tariff dismantling from 2017 to 2020. The talks still diverge on the industrial section.

To recall, the Association Agreement stipulates a gradual tariff dismantling of two lists of European products destined for export to Algeria, of which one is set to be fully dismantled as by 2012, while the second is scheduled for 2020.

The Agreement permits for the two parties to freeze the implementation of the dismantling for three months, in case the trade exchanges are misbalanced and serve one party on the expanse of another.