ALGIERS (ALGERIA), 04/26/2019.- Algerians demonstrate for the tenth consecutive Friday to ask for the complete fall of the regime, in Algiers, Algeria./ MOHAMED MESSARAExternal pressure from the EU and internal pressure from the country's businessmen have forced the Government of Algeria to unfreeze trade relations with Spain, 50 days after announcing the economic retaliation as punishment for the new position of the Government of Spain on Western Sahara .The banking employers, supervised by the Government, has repealed this Thursday the previous order, of June 8, to freeze the bank accounts that are used to make payments and collections of imports and exports to and from Spain.Some containers have already been unblocked at customs, according to Algerian media.The movement comes just five days after the Executive of Abdelmadjid Tebboune confirmed the commercial blockade.Why this change?According to sources familiar with the internal situation in the country, there were some complaints from officials because these measures harmed small and medium-sized companies in Algeria, which could not receive the products they needed to manufacture or sell, nor could they export their products to Spain (seeds, fertilizers, fish, mineral oils)."There were several protests and 'sit-ins' in front of the Ministry of Commerce by some Algerian importers who demanded that the merchandise they had bought in Spain be allowed to pass through the customs of the country's ports," according to those same sources.There was also confusion among the companies and customs officials about how to apply the measures: if the commercial blockade also applied to European goods passing through Spanish ports, or to those that had been ordered before June 8."The confusion persists" and the situation "puts Algerian companies that have economic ties with Spain in total limbo," read the semi-independent newspaper TSA, as reported by EL PERIÓDICO DE ESPAÑA.The trade wall also makes it difficult to implement the economic policy dictated by the Abdelmadjid Tebboune government itself, which seeks to diversify the country's economy away from hydrocarbons."Since 2019 there has been a new policy that consists of asking Algerian companies to create businesses beyond gas and oil," the French-based Algerian analyst Yahia H. Zoubir explains to this newspaper.“I think there have been negotiations through the back door to unblock the situation.We are entering a stage of de-escalation and appeasement, ”says this professor with contacts in diplomacy and the Government of Algiers.There is already news of unlocking containers with goods.The newspaper Argelia Patriótica points out, for example, that it has already been possible to deliver textile orders after the unlocking."We have learned from various sources that Spanish franchises, particularly in the fashion sector, have been able to deliver their merchandise after weeks of blockade that occurred after Algeria's decision to suspend the Treaty of Friendship with Spain and the measures of retaliation that followed”, reads the news published this Friday.In 2019, the last "normal" year, before the pandemic, Spain exported nearly 2.9 billion euros to Algeria (approximately 1% of the 300 billion total).It exports, above all, foundry materials, iron and steel;mechanical machines and apparatus;paper and cardboard and their manufactures;or plastic materials, among other goods.It imported 3,900 million, almost all fuel (gas and coal).The note from the bank employers and the unblocking of goods are a first step by Algeria to de-escalate tensions with Spain.With this, it relieves Algerian manufacturers, merchants and companies, while giving air to the Spanish ones.What does not seem likely is that this supposes a return to normal relations prior to March 18 of this year.It was then that the Royal House of Morocco reported, with a tweet, that Pedro Sánchez had expressed in a letter to King Mohamed VI that he considered his plan to give autonomy to occupied Western Sahara as "the most serious, realistic and credible base".Spain thus abandoned decades of neutrality in the conflict.Other countries, like France or Germany, had done something similar before.🔴 Royal Cabinet statement: Spain considers the Moroccan autonomy initiative as the most serious, realistic and credible basis for resolving the dispute over Moroccan Sahara.🔗https://t.co/XFmyt5LbGj pic.twitter.com/fvNBq7fmpLJoe Biden has expressed himself along the same lines: It is a “serious, realistic and credible” plan, said the US president, without the “more”.Donald Trump's position had indeed gone much further, since the former president said that Morocco had sovereignty over the disputed territories.The UN calls for a self-determination referendum, which should have been held in 1991 in exchange for the ceasefire with Morocco of the Polisario Front (the national liberation movement of the Saharawis, based in Tindouf, Algeria).The question of gas remains up in the air, but in this sense, Algeria has been constant in emphasizing that the diplomatic crisis was not going to influence the supply of gas to Spain, except perhaps in a price increase.Sonatrach, the public gas company, has indeed taken advantage of the situation to strengthen its relations with Italy."I no longer believe that Spain can become the gas hub for Europe, because Algiers is strengthening ties with Italy with this in mind," says Zoubir.The resigning Italian Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, and the gas companies of Italy, the United States and Canada have signed succulent contracts with Algeria in recent days.If the flow of gas is sustained (there was a recent scare due to a cut attributed to technical issues) and it is confirmed that there is a de-escalation and improvement in relations in bilateral trade between Spain and Algeria, the only thing left would be to solve the diplomatic crisis.Spain still does not have an Algerian ambassador.The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not wanted to comment on it for this article.Algeria Trade Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism Ministry of Foreign Affairs, European Union and Cooperation.Who we are Publicity RSS Legal warning Privacy policy and cookies Privacy Preferences Hiring conditionsOther websites of Prensa Ibérica Media:Buscandorespuestas.com Cartoon Network Used Car BuyBest Cuore Newspaper Córdoba Newspaper of Girona Newspaper of Mallorca Newspaper of Ibiza El Día de Tenerife Sport The Newspaper of Aragón The Newspaper of Catalonia The Newspaper of Extremadura The Newspaper Mediterráneo Faro de Vigo Neomotor Formula1 Beautiful Iberempleos Information Information TV The Chronicle of Badajoz The New Spain The Opinion of A Coruña The Opinion of Malaga The Opinion of Murcia The Opinion The Mail of Zamora The Province Diario de Las Palmas Levante El Mercantil Valenciano Levante TV Empordà Christmas Lottery Mallorca Zeitung Neox Kidz Goya Awards Oscar 2022 Regió7 Stilo Superdeporte Environment Trends21 Tucasa Travel Woman Cambalache Iberpisos