March 16 (SeeNews) - Romania recorded a current account surplus of 216 million euro ($266 million) in January, lower than 258 million euro in the same month of last year, the central bank said on Friday, citing provisional data.
The deficit on trade in goods widened by 169 million euro, while the surplus in services expanded by 3 million euro, the central bank said in a balance of payments report for January 2017.
Romania's current account balance showed a deficit of 4.464 billion euro in 2017, compared to a gap of 3.498 billion euro a year earlier.
Details on Romania's current account balance follow (in millions of euro):
|
Jan '18 |
Jan '17 |
Current account |
216 |
258 |
- goods balance |
-731 |
-562 |
- services balance |
599 |
596 |
- primary income |
229 |
174 |
- secondary income |
119 |
50 |
($=0.8111 euro)