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Balance of payments and external debt – August 2021

November 16, 2021

  In January - August 2021p, the balance-of-payments current account posted a deficit of EUR 10,149 million, compared with EUR 6,549 million in the same year-ago period, the National Bank of Romania informs. The breakdown shows that the deficits on trade in goods and on primary income widened by EUR 2,389 million and EUR 587 million, respectively; the surplus on secondary income and that on services decreased by EUR 315 million and EUR 309 million, respectively.   Non-residents' direct investment in Romaniae totalled EUR 4,394 million (compared with EUR 1,481 million in January - August 2020), of which equity (including the estimated net reinvestment of earnings) and intercompany lending recorded net values of EUR 3,803 million and EUR 591 million, respectively. In January - August 2021, total external debt increased by EUR 8,404 million, of which: long-term external debt at end-August 2021 totalled EUR 99,049 million (73.3 percent of total external debt), up 5.9 percent against end-2020; short-term external debt at end-August 2021 amounted to EUR 36,162 million (26.7 percent of total external debt), up 8.7 percent from end-2020.   Long-term external debt service ratio ran at 16.4 percent in January - August 2021 against 20.7 percent in 2020. At end-August 2021, goods and services import cover stood at 5.3 months, as compared to 5.6 months at end-2020. At end-August 2021, the ratio of the National Bank of Romania’s foreign exchange reserves to short-term external debt by remaining maturity came in at 89.4 percent, against 90.3 percent at end-2020.

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