November 9 (SeeNews) - Romania's trade gap narrowed by 61.4% on the year in the first nine months of 2009 to an estimated 6.933 billion euro ($10.4 billion), as imports decreased faster than exports, the country's statistics board, INS, said on Monday.
Details follow (in millions of euro, y/y pct change in brackets):
|
|
Sept'09 |
Jan-Sept'09 |
| Exports (FOB) |
2,590.6 (-13.1) |
21,182.3 (-18.3) |
| Imports (CIF) |
3,646.0 (-34.0) |
28,115.1 (-36.0) |
| Balance |
-1,055.4 (-58.5) |
-6,932.8 (-61.4) |
Romania's trade gap widened by 3.4% to 22.5 billion euro last year.
($ =0.6682 euro)