Romania's foreign trade deficit widens in April

BUCHAREST: Romania's foreign trade deficit widened by about 35 percent on the year in January-April to 5.0 billion euros ($5.69 billion), the National Statistics Board said on Monday.

The shortfall in April was 1.382 billion euros against 1.232 billion gap a month before.

The statistics board said January-April CIF (cost/insurance/freight) imports were 28.1 billion euros, up 8.3 percent on the year, while exports were 23.1 billion euros, up 3.8 percent.