{"id":215275,"date":"2019-06-05T19:08:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T22:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=215275"},"modified":"2019-06-30T17:39:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T20:39:00","slug":"algeria-reduces-foodstuff-imports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/algeria-reduces-foodstuff-imports\/","title":{"rendered":"Algeria reduces foodstuff imports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Argel and S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Algeria&#8217;s foodstuff imports reached USD 2.82 billion year through April, a 11% year-on-year decline, as per figures from the country\u2019s General Directorate of Customs. The information is from the news agency <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aps.dz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>APS<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>External purchases of cereals, dairy products, sugar, soy bran, and dried vegetables declined. However, imports of fresh or dried fruits, living animals and miscellaneous food preparations grew.<\/p>\n<p>A decline was also seen in soy oil imports, but this product is ranked as an industrial input in Algeria and is not counted in the food trade balance.<\/p>\n<p>Food and beverage exports from Brazil to Algeria reached USD 280.3 million year through April, a 5.2% year-on-year decline. Figures are from the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ccab.org.br\/en\/home\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The negative change basically occurred in sugar sales, since other important products exports increased, such as soy oil, corn, and fresh beef.<\/p>\n<p>Total exports from Brazil to Algeria, however, increased 10.4% year-on-year, to USD 336.3 million, driven by iron ore, and iron or steel bars.<\/p>\n<p>It is worth remembering that Algeria implemented a restrictive policy to imports in order to reduce its trade deficit and encourage domestic production. However, in April, <a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/algeria-clears-imports-of-100-plus-items\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the government decided to lax rules<\/a> on \u201cstrategic foodstuffs\u201d to encourage the building of stockpiles for Ramadan, which has just ended.<\/p>\n<p>This resulted in the reduction of the import tax on items such as fresh and refrigerated beef, dried fruits, nuts, butter, medicinal or diet food, and others.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-215271\">Ryad Kramdi\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>External purchases reached USD 2.82 billion year through April, a 11% year-on -year decline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":215271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[28303,238,2034,1869,232,8931,8930,29659,3249],"class_list":{"0":"post-215275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-acucar-en-2","9":"tag-agribusiness","10":"tag-algeria","11":"tag-beef","12":"tag-brazil","13":"tag-cereals-soy-oil","14":"tag-foodstuffs","15":"tag-oleo-de-soja-en","16":"tag-sugar"},"wps_subtitle":"External purchases reached USD 2.82 billion year through April, a 11% year-on -year decline.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}