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Food exports to third countries, over three times higher than imports
The agri-food products exports outside the European Union space totalled 1.165 million tonnes, in the first four months of this year, being over three times higher than the imports made from these countries and increasing almost 20 percent from the quantities exported in the same period of last year, according to the data the Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry (MADR) supplied to Agerpres.
Exports to third countries represent more than half of the total volume Romania exported inside and outside the EU.
In the aforementioned period, the amount of 489.2 million euros were obtained from the food exports to third countries, increasing 40 percent from the same period last year, when the collections stood at 349.75 million euros for a 973,319 tonne volume.
According to the trade balance, the agri-food imports to third countries totalled in the first four months this year 388,200 tonnes, accounting for 289.6 million euros, declining from the same period of 2012, when they amounted to 436,667 tonnes (279.18 million euros).
In the first four months of this year, Romania exported 1.963 million tonnes of agri-food products to EU and non-EU countries, almost 10 percent less than in the similar period of last year, when exports totalled 2.17 million tonnes.
The European Union remains the main partners of Romania in the agri-food trade, with the imports from EU member states in the first four months into 2013 standing at 1.366 million tonnes of food, namely 78 percent of the imports, their value reaching 1.276 billion euros. The exports from EU countries totalled 798,441 tonnes of agri-food products, namely 40 percent of the total export volume, and the collections reached 714.526 million euros.