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Article: TUNISIA: TUNISIAN ECONOMIC NEWS.(2000)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- June 15, 2000
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Merely 9.5 percent of Tunisia's total trade of $13.3 billion is conducted with Asian countries. In 1998, Pakistani exporters sold $ 15 million worth of cotton fabrics to the Republic of Tunisia. Pakistan are also able to export traditional and non-traditional items to Tunisia if exporters and the Export Promotion Bureau choose to do so. This North African nation faces a trade deficit and imports food, which comprises 12 percent or $7.9 billion of its total imports. Due to its limited natural resources, Tunisia has in recent years focused on developing its human resources. The lion's share of the national budget has been allocated to education, health care, housing and ...