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The organizations that help companies export from and invest in Algeria, grouped by what you need. Each card links to the organization’s own site.
1. Where to start
Organisme des exportations, AAPI and DGD: the guide’s first stops, of the 14 organizations below.
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- Get advice
National export promotion body
Organisme des exportations
Organisme algérien des exportations
Is charged with promoting non-hydrocarbon exports, creating a national exporter file and running an export one-stop shop, under a 2025 decree that dissolved the earlier trade promotion agency.
- Get advice
Investment promotion agency
AAPI
Agence algérienne de promotion de l’investissement
Registers investments, runs the one-stop shops and the investor digital platform, and handles economic land requests, until the new national investment one-stop shop takes over.
Visit AAPI (opens in a new tab)Source: Algeria Official Journal no. 31, 28 April 2026 (in French) (opens in a new tab) · as of April 28, 2026
- Meet requirements
National customs authority
DGD
Direction Générale des Douanes
Clears export declarations, issues AfCFTA and European Union origin certificates, and publishes exporter guides and customs procedures.
Visit DGD (opens in a new tab)Source: Algerian customs, AfCFTA page (in French) (opens in a new tab) · as of October 30, 2026
2. Export development and market information
4 organizations. Each card links to the organization’s own site.
- Get advice
National export promotion body
Organisme des exportations
Organisme algérien des exportations
Is charged with promoting non-hydrocarbon exports, creating a national exporter file and running an export one-stop shop, under a 2025 decree that dissolved the earlier trade promotion agency.
- Find finance
Export credit insurer
CAGEX
Compagnie Algérienne d’Assurance et de Garantie des Exportations
Sells global and single-sale export credit insurance that covers the risk of a foreign buyer not paying.
Visit CAGEX (opens in a new tab)Source: CAGEX home page, export credit insurance products (opens in a new tab) · as of October 30, 2026
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National statistics office
ONS
Office National des Statistiques
Publishes consumer price indexes, national accounts and foreign trade price indexes for Algeria.
Visit ONS (opens in a new tab)Source: ONS home page (in French) (opens in a new tab) · as of October 30, 2026
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Continental trade secretariat
AfCFTA Secretariat
Multilateral body
Publishes the eTariff tool showing the tariff each member state applies to goods from other members.
Visit AfCFTA Secretariat (opens in a new tab)Source: AfCFTA Secretariat, eTariff tool (opens in a new tab) · as of October 30, 2026
3. Investment and business setup
3 organizations. Each card links to the organization’s own site.
- Get advice
Investment promotion agency
AAPI
Agence algérienne de promotion de l’investissement
Registers investments, runs the one-stop shops and the investor digital platform, and handles economic land requests, until the new national investment one-stop shop takes over.
Visit AAPI (opens in a new tab)Source: Algeria Official Journal no. 31, 28 April 2026 (in French) (opens in a new tab) · as of April 28, 2026
- Meet requirements
Commercial register
CNRC
Centre National du Registre du Commerce
Keeps the commercial register, and its staff at the investment one-stop shops can issue register documents; traders must start updating their entry within one month of a change.
Official gazette
Journal officiel
Journal officiel de la République algérienne démocratique et populaire
Publishes Algeria’s laws, decrees and Bank of Algeria regulations, including the investment law and the strategic activities list.
4. Customs and tax
3 organizations. Each card links to the organization’s own site.
- Meet requirements
National customs authority
DGD
Direction Générale des Douanes
Clears export declarations, issues AfCFTA and European Union origin certificates, and publishes exporter guides and customs procedures.
Visit DGD (opens in a new tab)Source: Algerian customs, AfCFTA page (in French) (opens in a new tab) · as of October 30, 2026
- Meet requirements
Central bank
Banque d’Algérie
Sets the foreign exchange rules for export proceeds, including the 120-day return limit, and runs the interbank market that sets the dinar rate.
Visit Banque d’Algérie (opens in a new tab)Source: Algeria Official Journal no. 58, 12 August 2026 (in French) (opens in a new tab) · as of August 12, 2026
- Meet requirements
National tax authority
DGI
Direction Générale des Impôts
Opens a company's tax file and issues its tax identification number, including through its staff at AAPI's one-stop shops.
Visit DGI (opens in a new tab)Source: Algeria Official Journal no. 31, 28 April 2026 (in French) (opens in a new tab) · as of April 28, 2026
5. Standards and sector requirements
3 organizations. Each card links to the organization’s own site.
- Meet requirements
Agriculture and plant-health ministry
MADRP
Ministère de l’Agriculture, du Développement Rural et de la Pêche
Oversees plant-health inspection and phytosanitary certificates for exported plant products, and veterinary health derogations for animals and animal products.
- Meet requirements
National standards body
IANOR
Institut Algérien de Normalisation
Is Algeria's national standards institute, set up by Executive Decree 98-69 under the Ministry of Industry, whose minister named its board in May 2026.
Visit IANOR (opens in a new tab)Source: Official Journal no. 56, IANOR board order, 2026 (in French) (opens in a new tab) · as of August 2, 2026
- Meet requirements
Quality control center
CACQE
Centre Algérien du Contrôle de la Qualité et de l’Emballage
Issues conformity certificates to exporters on request, after sampling and laboratory analysis.
6. Chambers and industry associations
1 organization. Each card links to the organization’s own site.
- Get advice
National chamber of commerce
CACI
Chambre Algérienne de Commerce et d'Industrie
Issues Arab free trade area certificates of origin, and certificates for trade with Jordan, which customs then stamps at export.
Visit CACI (opens in a new tab)Source: Algerian customs, Arab free trade area (in French) (opens in a new tab) · as of October 30, 2026
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Promote:Algeria is an independent guide by Promote:Global, not an official government portal. The organizations named here are independent public and membership bodies, not Promote:Global partners, and every link goes to their own site.
Facts read from public sources, with an editorial cut-off of October 30, 2026. Nothing here is investment, legal, tax or sanctions advice. Check current status with the organization before you rely on it.