1.  Overview the trade of ROMANIA in goods current year until 202212

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202212, ROMANIA's exports and imports of goods amounted to 17267.8154 million, and were down 0.24% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were down 4.60% at 6960.1456 million, and imports were up 2.93% at 10307.6698 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 3347.5242 million and up 23.14%.

During the current year until 202212, ROMANIA's total exports and imports of goods were 228966.7723 million and were up 12.46% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 96556.3686 million and up 10.49%; imports were 132410.4037 million and up 13.95%. The total trade deficit was 35854.0351 million and up 24.43%.

If considering by country (region), GERMANY, ITALY, HUNGARY, INTRA-EU, BULGARIA were ROMANIA's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202212, ROMANIA's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 39631.7835 million, 18762.0035 million, 14421.2608 million, 12495.0200 million, 11448.5982 million. These values correspond to 17.31%, 8.19%, 6.30%, 5.46%, 5.00% of ROMANIA's imports and exports, and, respectively, were down 3.94%, down 3.05%, up 10.56%, 0, up 39.36% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202212, ROMANIA and the top five trade partners GERMANY, ITALY, HUNGARY, FRANCE, INTRA-EU are the top five countries/territories that ROMANIA exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202212, ROMANIA's exports to these five countries/territories were 17951.5717 million, 8862.3579 million, 6472.8383 million, 5392.6751 million, 4870.9400 million. These values correspond to 18.59%, 9.18%, 6.70%, 5.59%, 5.04% of ROMANIA's exports and, respectively, were down 0.94%, down 2.55%, up 29.31%, down 4.42%, 0 comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202212, ROMANIA's exports to top five countries/territories GERMANY, ITALY, BULGARIA, HUNGARY, CHINA are the top five countries/territories that ROMANIA imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202212, ROMANIA's imports from these five countries/territories were 21680.2117 million, 9899.6456 million, 8008.9157 million, 7948.4225 million, 7747.9723 million. These values correspond to 16.37%, 7.48%, 6.05%, 6.00%, 5.85% of ROMANIA's total imports and, respectively, were down 6.29%, down 3.49%, up 67.74%, down 1.12%, up 6.29% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202212, the trade surplus of ROMANIA was mainly from UNITED KINGDOM, UNITED STATES, MOLDOVA, FRANCE, ISRAEL at 1626.6263 million, 1220.8658 million, 1197.2612 million, 691.0429 million, 657.3667 million, and up 14.05%, up 33.77%, up 76.68%, down 6.16%, up 37.02%. And the trade deficits were mainly from CHINA, BULGARIA, POLAND, GERMANY, RUSSIA at 6604.9989 million, 4569.2332 million, 3751.7927 million, 3728.6400 million, 3697.2569 million, and up 6.15%, up 242.61%, up 0.31%, down 25.64%, up 45.97%.

Current year until 202212, ROMANIA's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202212,  commodities with hs2 codes, 85, 87, 27, 84, 99, were ROMANIA's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 32763.2668 million, 23218.7123 million, 22666.5100 million, 21386.7402 million, 12575.4211 million, which were up 0.64%, up 1.03%, up 91.70%, down 7.16%, up 60651.83% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 14.31%, 10.14%, 9.90%, 9.34%, 5.49% of ROMANIA's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202212, 85, 87, 84, 27, 99 were ROMANIA's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 14942.8054 million, 12968.6457 million, 9018.3458 million, 7318.9916 million, 4951.3276 million. These values correspond to 15.48%, 13.43%, 9.34%, 7.58%, 5.13% of ROMANIA's total exports and, respectively, were down 3.25%, up 0.35%, down 5.89%, up 137.33%, up 41032.94% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202212, 85, 27, 84, 87, 99 were ROMANIA's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 17820.4614 million, 15347.5184 million, 12368.3944 million, 10250.0666 million, 7624.0935 million. These values correspond to 13.46%, 11.59%, 9.34%, 7.74%, 5.76% of ROMANIA's total exports and, respectively, were up 4.15%, up 75.60%, down 8.06%, up 1.90%, up 87914.85% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202212, ROMANIA binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202212, ROMANIA-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 8890.9458 million and were up 6.38% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from ROMANIA to China were 1142.9734 million and up 7.06%, imports from China to ROMANIA were 7747.9723 million and up 6.29%. The total binational trade deficit was 6604.9989 million and up 6.15%.

During the urrent year until 202212, commodities with hs2 code, 85, 84, 90, 94, 39, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 2631.1744 million, 1863.8347 million, 443.9930 million, 317.1145 million, 308.0637 million and makes up 29.59%, 20.96%, 4.99%, 3.57%, 3.46% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 6.08%, down 1.83%, down 4.84%, down 0.26%, down 1.94% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202212, 84, 44, 85, 27, 90 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from ROMANIA, with export values of 234.6836 million, 208.5888 million, 183.4774 million, 143.7308 million, 103.8014 million. These values account for 20.53%, 18.25%, 16.05%, 12.58%, 9.08% of ROMANIA's total exports and were up 47.02%, up 17.06%, up 20.67%, up 135.24%, up 0.62% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202212, 85, 84, 90, 94, 39 were ROMANIA's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 2447.6971 million, 1629.1511 million, 340.1916 million, 304.1421 million, 281.7503 million. These values account for 31.59%, 21.03%, 4.39%, 3.93%, 3.64% of ROMANIA's total imports and were up 5.13%, down 6.32%, down 6.40%, up 0.05%, up 1.41% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Eurostat