Science and Education Publishing Journal of Behavioural Economics Finance Entrepreneurship Accounting and Transport 2376-1334 4 1 2016 6 4 Analysis of Algerian Trade Performance: From 1970 To 2014 13 17 EN Said BRIKA Department of Economics, Oum El Bouaghi University, Oum El Bouaghi, Algeria Lemya MEKARSSI JBE2016413 10.12691/jbe-4-1-3 2016 1 21 2016 3 22 2016 6 2 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.