The development of economic relations between Algeria and Tunisia in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

Abstract

This study concluded that the economic relations between the two countries were subject to political relations, but the relationship between the two peoples prevented the effects of political differences on economic communication and provided a great example of the interdependence and synergy between the people, and the basis of this economic dealing was land convoys and the role of the Algerian authorities in collecting taxes and customs duties was limited, and such relations increased confidence, stability and social, cultural and economic security between the two countries, and became a safe crossing point despite the vast area and harsh nature of all commercial convoys, It has contributed significantly to the spread and revitalization of business in North Africa by land and sea.