ABSTRACT
The history of the development of the iron and steel industry is relatively simple: on the eve of Independence, Algeria inherited a production capacity of 50,000 tons of steel with an electric steel plant for transforming scrap iron and manufacturing long products and two tube-making facilities for transforming imported steel for the purposes of hydrocarbons and building and public works. The iron and steel policy held a major position in the industrial policy as early as 1966. The initial choice of the Algerian iron and steel strategy went against the specialization imposed by the international division of labour for the branch. In fact, the division excludes third world countries from producing the line of flat products, a noble line with a more complex technology and a greater industrialization effect, particularly on mechanical, steel and electrical construction. Because of its nature, the line of products better matched the global industrialization strategy of Algeria.
