New orders in the durable goods sector were up 10.8% in 2012 from a year earlier, while orders in the consumer and intermediate goods sectors increased by 7.3% and 2%, respectively.
In the capital goods sector, new orders fell 1.6% on the year, the data showed.
In December alone, Romanian industrial new orders fell 14.2% on the month and were down 0.9% from the same month of 2011.