Les stratégies de négociation commerciale du processus d’accession à l’OMC, plus particulièrement le cas de l’Algérie

Abstract

The complexity and slowness of the accession process to the World Trade Organization (WTO) depends on the willingness of the requesting country to access it. This process is therefore a case-by-case procedure and includes several interrelated steps. The duration of the process differs from one country to another. On the one hand, because of the internal situation and the priority given to the accession file and the support given by other WTO members, and on the other hand, the ability to undertake substantive reforms in order to comply with the rules and disciplines of the WTO. Even though the accession process is heavy and expensive for the requesting countries, accession to this organization provides them with opportunities to develop more interests and define an adequate development strategy for their economy, as well as protection against the unsafe practices of other trading partners with appropriate assistance. Some accession requests date back to the 1980s, such as Algeria's 1987 application for accession, which is so far in still in progress. The slowness of the negotiations with the members of the working group in charge of its accession to the WTO, results from the Constraints related to structural and institutional transformations to which Algeria is confronted and its compromises of internal political economy, notably, its dependence the hydrocarbon sector in terms of growth.