{"id":7634,"date":"2025-11-11T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=7634"},"modified":"2025-11-11T08:00:29","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T08:00:29","slug":"romanias-trade-gap-narrows-by-7-6-y-y-in-q3-on-stronger-exports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=7634","title":{"rendered":"Romania\u2019s trade gap narrows by 7.6% y\/y in Q3 on stronger exports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romania\u2019s trade in goods posted a EUR 7.75 billion deficit in Q3, 7.6% smaller compared to the same period in 2024, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/insse.ro\/cms\/sites\/default\/files\/com_presa\/com_pdf\/ce09e25.pdf?mc_cid=c8e901a894&amp;mc_eid=607bd7d763\" target=\"_blank\">data published<\/a> by the statistics office INS. The trade gap expanded by 10.9% year-over-year (y\/y) to EUR 16.7 billion in H1.<\/p>\n<p>It is still premature to conclude that fiscal consolidation has a positive impact on the country\u2019s chronic external deficit, though.<\/p>\n<p>The improvement occurred amid a 6.7% year-over-year (y\/y) increase in exports to EUR 24.55 billion in Q3, twice the pace of imports in the same quarter (+2.9% y\/y) and also more than twice the pace of exports in H1 (+2.9% y\/y).<\/p>\n<p>Romania\u2019s exports were driven, in Q3, by 24% y\/y stronger exports of food and live animals (which contributed 1.8 percentage points to the 6.7% y\/y overall advance of exports), 62% y\/y higher exports of crude materials, inedible excluding fuels (2.5 pp contribution) and 4.6% stronger exports of transport equipment (mainly automobiles and parts of, which contributed 2.1pp due to sector\u2019s important weight in total exports).<\/p>\n<p>Romania\u2019s imports, in turn, slowed to +2.9% year-over-year (y\/y) in Q3 from +4.9% y\/y in H1, reaching EUR 32.30 billion in the third quarter of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Romania\u2019s trade gap in 12 months to September 2025 reached EUR 34.4 billion (+7.4% y\/y), as the 12-month rolling deficit has gradually eased from EUR 35.7 billion as of April 2025.<\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andreykuzmin\/ Dreamstime<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romania\u2019s trade in goods posted a EUR 7.75 billion deficit in Q3, 7.6% smaller compared to the same period in 2024, according to data published by the statistics office INS. The trade gap expanded by 10.9% year-over-year (y\/y) to EUR 16.7 billion in H1. It is still premature to conclude that fiscal consolidation has a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}