• Between 1995 and 2005, the EU accounted for 75% of our external trade.
• Since 2005, the EU’s share has steadily declined to 62% in 2018.
• Tunisia has managed to diversify its imports but not its exports for reasons related to the capital structure of Tunisian companies.

Until 2000, the Maghreb countries imported their capital goods from Western countries, with France in the lead.
• Since the 2000s, China has been making a breakthrough in the Maghreb.
• As of 2010, China is the leading supplier of capital goods in the Maghreb, replacing France.

• In 2017, Italy became Tunisia's leading commercial supplier ahead of France.
• Between 2010 and 2017, imports from France and Italy fell by 28% and 18% respectively.
• Between 2010 and 2017, imports from China and Turkey increased by 37% and 51% respectively.

The Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and other related international financial obligations of States on the full enjoyment of all human rights, particularly economic, social and cultural rights, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, conducted an official visit to Tunisia between 20 and 28 February 2017. The mandate of the Independent Expert is wide and complex, and is clearly framed within the scope and content of international human rights law and standards. In its most recent resolution extending the mandate1, the Human Rights Council requested the Independent Expert to, inter alia, pay particular attention to illicit financial flows, and the effects of foreign debt and the policies adopted to address them, on the full enjoyment of all human rights.