Romania's Q1 trade deficit rises 33.8pc y/y: statistics board

BUCHAREST: Romania's foreign trade deficit widened by about 34 percent on the year in January-March to 3.645 billion euros ($4.09 billion), the National Statistics Board said on Friday.

The shortfall in March was 1.232 billion euros against 1.152 billion euro gap a month before.

The statistics board said January-March CIF (cost/insurance/freight) imports were 21.2 billion euros, up 7.4 percent on the year, while exports were 17.5 billion euros, up 3.2 percent.