France gets the lion’s share in Algeria’s new cars market

Algerian trade ministry Thursday announced that it postponed delivering importing licences for the second week consecutively. A delay of 13 days is noted as the procedure was supposed to be launched on April 2nd. This is due to pressure made by car dealers.

Leaked figures show that France will have the lion’s share in imported cars i.e. 62,000 cars. Of them, 33,000 will be for Renault Algeria, 22,000 for Peugeot and 7,000 for Citroen. That means almost the half of imported cars out of 152,000 will be for the French compared to small quantities for German cars. They will not exceed 20,000. Korean cars will be estimated at 31,000 of Hyundai and Kia brands. 

The same figures show that more than 20 car dealers applied for the licence. A total of 80 applications will be rejected as requirements are not met.

Those information raised anger among car dealers as they consider that it is “unfair” compared to previous years.

In 2014, more than 600,000 were imported.