The extracting industry declined 4.5% on the year in the first ten months, and energy sales dropped 21.2%, but the capital goods industry grew 7.9%, durable goods grew 5.8%, intermediary goods grew 3.5%, and consumer goods grew 2.3%.
Compared with September, industrial sales remained unchanged in October, with 8.6% growth in manufacturing sales and a 7.7% decline in energy sales.
Compared with October 2014, Romania’s industrial sales grew half a percentage point, as manufacturing grew 1% but the extracting industry declined 13.5%. Energy sales were down 26%, while capital goods grew 7.4%, durable and consumer goods grew 2.4% each, andintermediary goods were down 1%.