Sales in the manufacturing industry increased 25.6% in the first quarter from the year-earlier period, while mining industry sales inched up 0.2%.
By sector, first-quarter sales in the intermediate goods industry were up 36.7% on the year, while sales in the capital and energy industries rose 31.2% and 23.2%, respectively.
In the durable goods industry, industrial sales increased 9.5% on the year in the first quarter, while consumer goods sales were up 4.5%, INS data showed.
In March alone, Romanian industrial sales advanced 17.7% from a month earlier and were up 21.2% compared with March 2010.