Tunisia reports slight decline in industrial production index

TUNIS, Nov. 22 (Xinhua) -- The industrial production index was down 0.9 percent in the first nine months of the current year, compared with the same period of 2016, National Institute of Statistics (INS) of Tunisia announced Wednesday.

Regarding the reasons for this regression, the INS mentioned in particular the decrease in the sector of non-mineral mining products by 5.6 percent.

However, the extraction of non-energy products increased by 20 percent, mainly due to the resumption of phosphate production of 3.54 million tonnes in the first nine months.