Romania’s commercial deficit decreased by 52% up to 582.4 million euro in the first two months of 2011 

drop compared to the same period last year, considering that exports had a higher growth rhythm than imports, Romania’s National Statistics Institute announced. In the first two months of the year, the value of exports increased by 41.9% up to 6.9 billion euro while imports increased by 25% up to 7.5 billion euro.

The value of intra-communitarian exchanges in the first two months of the year was 5.03 billion euro for exports and 5.4 billion euro for imports representing 72.8% of exports and 72.4% of imports.