Imports grew 9.6% on the year in 2018, to EUR82.86 billion, while exports grew at a lower rate, of 8.1%, totaling EUR67.73 billion.
Vehicles and other transport equipment made up 47.3% of Romania’s exports and 38% of its imports in 2018, while other manufactured goods accounted for 32.2% of exports and 30.5% of imports.
The European Union remained Romania’s main trading partner in 2018, being the source of 74.7% of the country’s imports and receiving 76.7% of its exports.
In December 2018 alone, imports grew 3.5 compared with December 2017, to EUR6.3 billion, while exports grew 2.4%, to EUR4.6 billion, resulting in a trade gap of EUR1.7 billion, the data showed.