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TRADE BALANCE

During the year 2020, exports recorded a decrease of 11.7% against an increase of 7.0% in 2019.in terms of value they reached 38705.9 MD against 43855.4 MD in 2019.

As for imports, they recorded a drop of 18.7% against an increase of 5.5% in 2019, in terms of value they reached 51463.7 MD against 63291.6 MD in 2019.

Thus, the trade deficit is reduced by 34.4% or 6678.4 MD. The coverage rate stands at 75.2% (against 69.3% in 2019) recording an improvement of 5.9 points.

Foreign Trade according to the Regime:

The Off shore regime::

Decrease in exports of around 14.3% against an increase of 9.4% in 2019

Imports fell by around 18.5% compared to an increase of 5.9% in 2019

The general regime:

Decrease in exports of around 4.2% against an increase of 0.4% in 2019

Decrease in imports of around 18.8% against an increase of 5.3% in 2019

Trade Balance Analysis:
During the year 2020, the trade balance is in deficit by approximately 12757.8 MD (compared to -19436.2 MD in 2019).

According to the foreign trade regime, we note:

The general regime: trade deficit of about 23760.9 MD
The Off shore regime: trade surplus of about 11003.1 MD

Trade Defense Instruments Manual

This manual aligns with this observation by defining the requirements, processes and minimum conditions required to enable national industrial producers, regardless of their fields of practice and branches of production, to easily resort to the instruments and mechanisms of trade defense as stipulated in the agreements of the World Trade Organization, the law relating to the defense against Unfair Import Practices as well as the law on Import Safeguards.

Trade defense measures

Trade defense measures

Mesures de sauvegarde

Import safeguard measures

Défense contre les pratiques déloyales à l’importation

Les mesures anti dumping

Anti-dumping measures

Les subventions et mesures

Subsidies and countervailing measures

Rights and obligations of the parties concerned

    • Right of local producers or their representatives to submit a request to the Ministry responsible for trade.
    •  Right of parties who provide confidential information in their application or during the investigation to the confidentiality of such information.
    • Right of the parties concerned by the investigation to be present at the hearings granted by the Ministry of Commerce to allow the confrontation of opposing views.
    • Right of each party interested in the investigation to refuse to attend the hearings.
    •  Right of parties interested in the investigation to present and defend their views in writing or orally.
    •  Right of interested parties to request a judicial review of an action taken, within a maximum period of 20 days from the date of publication of the notice in the JORT, in the case of unfair import practices.
    •  Importer’s right, where applicable, to reimbursement of duties collected in excess of the definitive dumping margin or the amount of the definitive countervailing duty.
    •  Right of the importer to the possibility of reimbursement of the increase in customs duties collected as a provisional safeguard measure in the absence of a definitive safeguard measure.
    • Obligation of the foreign exporter to respond to requests for information sent to him by the services of the Ministry responsible for Trade. Such requests shall be answered within the time limits and in the form
      specified in such requests.
    • Obligation of foreign parties submitting undertakings to communicate them in a non-confidential form for dissemination to the parties concerned by the investigation (case of unfair import practices).
    •  Obligation to collaborate with the services of the Ministry of Trade and to provide them with the necessary information during all stages of the investigation

Association Agreement with Jordan

Jordan
Convention establishing a free trade area between Tunisia and Jordan signed on 22/04/1998 and entered into force in 1999.

This agreement provides for the total dismantling of customs duties and taxes with equivalent effect on products traded between the two countries during a transitional period which has come to an end.
Download the Agreement

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