BAKU, Azerbaijan, June 12. In April 2025, the FOB exports in Romania amounted to 7.87 billion euros and the CIF imports reached 11 billion euros, resulting in a commercial deficit of 3.13 billion euros, Trend reports citing the country's Institute of Statistics.
Compared to April 2024, the nation's exports decreased by 5.2 percent, while imports increased by 0.4 percent.
From the temporal framework of January 1 to April 30, 2025, the
Free on Board (FOB) export metrics aggregated to a substantial 31
billion euros, while the Cost, Insurance, and Freight (CIF) import
figures registered at a noteworthy 43 billion euros.
In the initial quadrimester of 2025, there was a 0.5 percent uptick
in export metrics, while import figures experienced a robust
escalation of 6.0 percent relative to the corresponding timeframe
in 2024.
During this quadrimester interval, the FOB-CIF trade imbalance
escalated to 11.6 billion euros — an increment of 2.3 billion euros
(+24.5 percent) compared to the deficit documented in the preceding
fiscal year.
In this reporting interval, key export and import categories included machinery and transport equipment (46.5 percent of exports and 35.2 percent of imports), as well as other manufactured goods (27.7 percent of exports and 27.9 percent of imports).
From January through April 2025, Intra-EU27 trade in goods amounted to 22.3 billion euros for dispatches and 31 billion euros for arrivals, making up 71.0 percent of total exports and 71.8 percent of total imports.
Meanwhile, Extra-EU27 trade reached 9.1 billion euros for exports and 12.1 billion euros for imports — accounting for 29.0 percent and 28.2 percent of the totals, respectively.