Romania exported clothes and accessories worth EUR 2.4 billion in the first 10 months of 2016, 1.2 percent higher than 2015, according to the centralized data of the National Institute of Statistics (INS).
The clothes and accessories imports amounted to EUR 1.13 billion, 25.7 percent higher compared with January-October 2015, recording an excess of EUR 1.27 billion on this segment.
According to data provided by the Economy Ministry, the total value of international trade of Romania in the first 10 months of 2016 exceeded EUR 103.43 billion, a growth by 5.3 percent compared with the same period of 2015, exports recording a growth of EUR 47.76 billion (+4.1 percent) and imports registered a growth of EUR 55.67 billion (6.4 percent).
That is why, the Romanian trade balance went up by 23.2 percent from EUR 6.41 billion (a October 31 2015).
Georgiana Bendre