This trade brief provides a snapshot of Algeria, Egypt, and Mauritania’s trade globally and within Africa (intra-Africa trade). For each country, a short summary of its membership to different regional economic communities is provided. The brief also looks at market access issues related to each country’s intra-Africa trade. A value chain analysis incorporating the three countries is conduction to explore potential value chains that the three countries can develop. All data is sourced from the International Trade Centre (ITC) TradeMap, the World Bank’s World Integrated Trading Solution (WITS) database. The trade brief is also accompanied by visual representations of the key data trends in an infographic for each country.

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