Sales in the mining sector were down 14% on the month in April, while manufacturing sales decreased 6.9%, the data showed.
By segment, sales of energy products fell 24.6%, while durable good sales were down 9.5%. Sales of intermediary goods went down 7% compared with March, while sales of capital and consumer goods declined 5.9% and 2.5%, respectively.
Compared with April 2014, industrial sales fell 0.8%. Mining sales were down 4.3% in April against the same month of 2014, while manufacturing sales declined 0.7% on the year.
Despite the April decline, for the first four months of the year, Romanian industrial sales were up 1.7% against the similar period of 2014, fueled by increases in the first quarter.