Romania imported goods of EUR8.6 billion in 2000 and of over EUR69.1 billion in 2017. Romania exported goods of nearly EUR5 billion in 2000 and of EUR57.2 billion in 2017.
The trade in services between Romania and the rest of the world recorded a continuous and growing surplus between 2000 and 2017. In 2000, the surplus for services reached EUR1.5 billion and in 2017, it reached EUR7.9 billion.
The EU is one of the world’s largest players in the global trade of goods and services, and an interactive graph shows how the values of imports and exports with the rest of the world have changed between 2000 and 2017.
For trade in goods between the EU and the rest of the world, there was a continuous deficit in trade (meaning the value of imports was larger than exports) between 2000 and 2012. This situation changed in 2013 when there was a surplus of EUR42 billion. A surplus for trade in goods was recorded in each of the following years and in 2017 the surplus reached EUR137 billion.
For trade in services between the EU and the rest of the world, there was a continuous and growing surplus between 2000 to 2017. In 2000 the surplus for services stood at EUR 15 billion and reached EUR 188 billion in 2017.