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Trade : Romania's retail turnover up over 7 pct, Jan.-April, 2014
Romania's retail turnover volume (excluding trade in motor vehicles and motorcycles) in the first four months of 2014 increased from the similar period of 2013 both in unadjusted terms and adjusted terms for working days and seasonality, by 7.9 percent and 7.2 per cent, respectively, due to a rise in sales of non-food and food products, according to provisional data released on Tuesday by the National Statistics Institute (INS).
Between January 1 and April 30, 2014 compared to the same interval of 2013, the retail turnover volume (excluding trade in motor vehicles and motorcycles), unadjusted series, rose by 7.9 percent, due to an increase in the sale of non-food products (+11.1 percent), of food, beverages and tobacco (+7.3 percent), in fuel retail for motor vehicles in specialist shops (+3.2 percent).