Drinks and tobacco exports gross 425.8M euros in 2009

Romania exported drinks and tobacco worth 425.8 million euros (over 1.803 billion lei), in 2009, read data the National Statistics Institute (INS) supplied.

During the same year, our country imported drinks and tobacco worth 318.9 million euros (1.35 billion lei), recording an excess of 106.9 million euros (453 million lei).

Romania's commercial deficit stood at 41.271 billion lei (9.738 billion euros), last year, by 45.049 billion lei (13.777 billion euros) lower than in 2008, say INS preliminary estimates.

According to INS the CIF imports went down by 21.8 percent for values in lei (32.3 percent for values in euro) totaling 164.409 billion lei (38.774 billion euros), while the FOB exports reached 123.138 billion lei (29.036 billion euros), in 2009, by only 0.5 percent less for values in lei (13.9 percent for values in euro).

AGERPRES