2023-06-15 09:04:07
For Tunis, it is time to put everything back on track. “Tunisia is entitled to review the terms of its partnership with Ankara to remedy to imbalances in the balance of trade between the two countries,” said Samir Saïd, the Tunisian Minister of Economy and Planning, on June 9, in front of journalists.
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The initiative is almost a sea serpent in Tunisia, as the country struggles to balance its trade deficit. Already in 2017, Nidaa Tounes, former ruling party, had mentioned the suspension for five years of the said agreement. A few days following Kaïs Saïed’s coup in 2021, the Minister of Commerce, Mohamed Boussaid, declared: “Tunisia has requested the revision of the agreement with Turkey to protect national production”. In vain.
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