Industrial sales declined 12.3% compared with July, after a 2.7% increase in the previous month. Sales in the manufacturing sector fell 12.7% on the month in August, while mining sales went down 2.4%, the data showed.
By segment, energy sales rose 3.8% month-on-month, but all the other sectors posted significant drops. Sales of capital goods and intermediate goods decreased 26.2% and 8.7%, respectively. Sales of consumer goods fell 7.7% compared with July, while durable goods sales declined 6.1%.
On an annual basis, industrial sales rose 2.3% in August, fueled by higher sales in all sectors.
Manufacturing sales increased 2.3% in August compared with the same month of 2013, while mining sales were up 2.2% on the year.
In the first eight months of 2014, Romanian industrial sales rose 8.9% on the year, INS data showed.