eng Science and Education Publishing Journal of Behavioural Economics Finance Entrepreneurship Accounting and Transport 2376-1334 2016-06-04 4 1 13 17 10.12691/jbe-4-1-3 JBE2016413 article Said BRIKA saidbrika@yahoo.fr 1 Lemya MEKARSSI 2 Department of Economics, Oum El Bouaghi University, Oum El Bouaghi, Algeria Department of Management, Oum El Bouaghi University, Oum El Bouaghi, Algeria This paper helps to clarify the performance of Algerian foreign trade that may help the policy makers to set foreign trade policy correctly to stimulate the economic development. The study adopts a main methodological approach including the analysis of foreign trade performance during the period of 1970-2014 by using some indicators in order to observe how foreign trade of Algeria changed in forty four years. http://pubs.sciepub.com/jbe/4/1/3/jbe-4-1-3.pdf trade performance Algerian foreign trade economic development