At the end of March, the annual inflation was at 0.8%.
Prices of food products went up 0.3% on the month in April, while service prices were by 0.1% more expensive, the data showed. Prices of non-food products were stable compared with March.
Romanians paid 2% more for vegetables in April compared with a month earlier, while fruit prices increased 3.3%. In the non-food sector, fuel price rose 0.7% on the month and tobacco product costs were 0.8% higher, but the decline of natural gas prices (down 3.7% from March) helped keep the overall inflation down.
Compared with April 2014, food product prices were up 0.3%, while the prices of non-food items and services rose 0.5% and 1.7%, respectively.
Romania’s central bank sees the inflation rate slowing down to zero by the end of 2015, due to the cut of the value added tax rate for food products to 9% from 24% starting June 1.