China is still Algeria's largest supplier with trade at 6.86 billion U.S. dollars or 17.81 percent of Algeria's total import bill in the first ten months of 2016, revealed figures from the Customs' Statistics and Data Center (CNIS) reported on Sunday by the local APS news agency.

Algeria's imports bill in the last ten months hit 38.54 billion dollars, according to the source, while China managed to remain Algeria's first supplier, dethroning France for the fourth year in a row.

France occupied the second place among Algeria's largest suppliers with four billion dollars, followed by Italy with 3.9 billion dollars, Spain with three billion dollars and Germany with 2.3 billion dollars.

At the end of 2015, Chinese imports into Algeria accounted for 8.22 billion dollars, from a total of a 51.501 billion dollar bill.

As for Algerian exports, the figures indicate that Italy stands as the primary destination in the first ten months of 2016 with 4.04 billion dollars, from an overall 22.74 billion dollars' worth of exports so far.

Spain came in third with three billion dollars, followed by France with 2.6 billion dollars, the U.S. with 2.08 billion dollars and finally Canada with 1.14 million dollars.

(Xinhua News Agency November 21, 2016)