Demand for Romanian exports went down by 10-30% in the last quarter of 2008 on all sectors offering goods for export, announced on November 18, at the Romanian Banking Forum, president of the National Association of Exporters and Importers of Romania (ANEIR) Mihai Ionescu.
In his opinion, the domestic companies should diversify their offer to the other zones than the current ones, to less vulnerable states to the current global crisis.
ANEIR representative also said that the Romanian companies have still the chance to benefit of foreign and national funds in order to boost competitiveness.
Romania’s FOB exports totalled 93.039 billion RON (25.581 billion euros) over January -September 2008, a surge of 30.4% in RON expressed values and 18.3% in euro expressed values compared to the same period in 2007, according to the National Statistics Institute (INS).
Exported goods dynamics overtook the goods imports dynamics in the first nine months of the year as against the same period of the previous year, continuing the trend started in December 2007.
FOB exports amounted to 10.485 billion RON (2.915 billion euros) and CIF imports to 18.865 billion RON (5.253 billion euros) in September 2008, according to preliminary INS estimations.
In September 2008, compared to September 2007, exports advanced by 26.1% in RON expressed values (16.6% in euro expressed values) and imports rose by 34.5% in RON expressed values (24.5% in euro expressed values).
From August 2008 to September 2008 exports advanced by 12.4% in RON expressed values (10.8% in euro expressed values) and imports were up 21.8% in RON expressed values (20.3% in euro expressed values).
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