Romania imported 42,210 tons of coffee, coffee husks and coffee substitutes in 2014,with 3.2% less in the previous year, a publication of the INS shows. The total value of such imports reached last year 150,7 million euro, up by 1.47% against 2013. As regards the export of such products, they dropped by 60.3% namely 1.342 tons, 8.8 million euro respectively. The commercial deficit for coffee, coffee husks and coffee substitutes was 141.9 million euro, up by 3.61% in 2014 against the previous year. Romania imported most quantities of coffee from Germany, 9,270 tons (38.1 million euro) and exported 342 tons to Bulgaria (1.9 million euro). According to INS,Romania had during last year commercial relations with 212 countries. Even so, the majority of international trade relied on some dominant partner countries. In 2014, most important 10 export markets were 63.2% of the total of Romania’sexports, while the first 10 partner countries for import made 67.5% of the total of imports. The value of imports made byRomania surpassed 58.5 billion euro, up by 5.8% against the previous year, the biggest share of this kind of trade being with countries in the EU, 75.4% of the total, shows the INS data. According to the statistics, at the level of last year, the value of imports from Germany was by 9.5% higher than the previous year, the mostly frequently traded products being represented by cars, apparata and electrical equipment, recording equipment and image recording equipment,transport means and transport materials, metals , chemical products, textiles.
Update: Bucharest Mayor Nicusor Dan won the Romanian presidential election on May 18, according to the official vote count. With 98.5% of the ballots counted, Nicusor Dan had 54.17% of the votes, 900,000 more than his opponent, nationalist George Simion. A record turnout both in the country and abroad helped Dan come back from 1.88 million […]
Romanians showed up in record numbers to vote in the second round of the presidential elections, both in the country and abroad. The exit poll results presented on Sunday evening pointed to a strong lead for Bucharest’s pro-EU mayor Nicusor Dan (54%-46%), but are only relevant for the domestic vote. Both candidates claimed victory in […]
Romanians showed up in large numbers to vote in the second round of the country’s presidential elections, one of the most important democratic tests Romania has seen in the last three decades. At 14:00, exactly halfway through the voting process in the country, over 5.63 million Romanians have cast their votes, compared with 4.52 million […]
Romanians abroad have mobilized massively to vote in the second round of the country’s presidential elections. Update: By Sunday afternoon (15:00 Bucharest time), over 1.2 million Romanians have voted abroad for the country's next president. That's some 220,000 more votes than the overall total in the first round. The countries with the largest turnout are […]
Romanians abroad have mobilized massively to vote in the second round of the country’s presidential elections. The vote in Diaspora started on Friday morning, and by Saturday evening (at 19:00), over 609,000 Romanians had already cast their votes. The turnout is almost 90% higher than the one recorded at the same time in the first […]
It's almost impossible to think about anything not related to elections this weekend but if you should need some distraction, there are options. Happening now is the European Film Festival, screening recent productions from the continent, very varied in theme, tone, and genre. The fest is playing Bucharest, Sfântu Gheorghe and Timișoara until Sunday and […]
