Summary
- Share of its imports
- 17.6%
- Value imported
- $1.6billion
- Rank among its suppliers
- 1st
- Products where it sells over 50%
- 15
- Products where it sells over 75%
- 7
- Dominated value
- $953million
- Share of total imports
- 10.2%
Trend
Trend in shares
Romania went from 7% to 17.6% of what Moldova buys
Share (%)
- Romania 17.6%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Value (USD millions) | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 68 | 7% | 4 |
| 1996 | 75 | 5.6% | 4 |
| 1997 | 128 | 9.5% | 4 |
| 1998 | 121 | 9.8% | 3 |
| 1999 | 89 | 11.3% | 3 |
| 2000 | 132 | 13.6% | 3 |
| 2001 | 101 | 9.1% | 4 |
| 2002 | 105 | 8.3% | 4 |
| 2003 | 122 | 7% | 5 |
| 2004 | 182 | 8.3% | 3 |
| 2005 | 279 | 10% | 3 |
| 2006 | 366 | 11.7% | 3 |
| 2007 | 503 | 11.7% | 3 |
| 2008 | 614 | 11% | 3 |
| 2009 | 349 | 9.4% | 3 |
| 2010 | 426 | 10% | 3 |
| 2011 | 611 | 11.7% | 2 |
| 2012 | 652 | 12.3% | 2 |
| 2013 | 764 | 13.2% | 2 |
| 2014 | 851 | 15% | 1 |
| 2015 | 591 | 14.4% | 1 |
| 2016 | 585 | 13.7% | 1 |
| 2017 | 795 | 15.4% | 1 |
| 2018 | 983 | 16.4% | 1 |
| 2019 | 956 | 15.7% | 1 |
| 2020 | 736 | 13.2% | 1 |
| 2021 | 1,031 | 13.5% | 2 |
| 2022 | 1,756 | 18.5% | 1 |
| 2023 | 1,411 | 15.7% | 1 |
| 2024 | 1,650 | 17.6% | 1 |
Products where Romania sells more than half
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Refined petroleum | Romania | 76%over 75% | Bulgaria · 6.4% | $677 million |
| Electricity | Romania | 87.3%over 75% | Ukraine · 12.1% | $111 million |
| Ferrous scrap | Romania | 99.8%over 75% | United States · 0.14% | $103 million |
| Fresh fish | Romania | 63.6% | Norway · 13.3% | $14 million |
| Paper boxes and packaging | Romania | 51.2% | Ukraine · 19.5% | $13 million |
| Gravel and crushed stone | Romania | 65.4% | Ukraine · 29.7% | $10 million |
| Water | Romania | 52.3% | Ukraine · 17.2% | $8 million |
| Ceramic building bricks | Romania | 89.1%over 75% | Ukraine · 7.8% | $5 million |
| Plasterboard and plaster articles | Romania | 59.6% | Ukraine · 34.8% | $5 million |
| Corrugated paper and paperboard | Romania | 72.3% | Ukraine · 17.1% | $3 million |
| Glass cullet and scrap | Romania | 99.8%over 75% | Germany · 0.13% | $1 million |
| Aluminum cans, drums and containers | Romania | 67.2% | Czechia · 14.5% | $1 million |
| Fluorine, chlorine, bromine and iodine | Romania | 90.8%over 75% | India · 3.9% | $932 thousand |
| Quicklime and slaked lime | Romania | 84.6%over 75% | Ukraine · 6.2% | $885 thousand |
| Caustic soda and potash | Romania | 62.4% | Turkey · 14.9% | $703 thousand |
A product has a dominant supplier when a single country sells more than 50% of what is bought of it; we flag it separately above 75%.
Are there other suppliers in the world?
- Romania sells 0.35% of what the world exports of refined petroleum; next come United States (11.7%), Singapore (6.3%) and South Korea (5.9%). The rest of the world exported 1,264.3 times what Moldova buys from Romania.
- Romania sells 1.1% of what the world exports of electricity; next come France (14%), Germany (6.8%) and Switzerland (6.1%). The rest of the world exported 559.3 times what Moldova buys from Romania.
- Romania sells 1.3% of what the world exports of ferrous scrap; next come United States (13.9%), Germany (9.9%) and United Kingdom (7.6%). The rest of the world exported 423.6 times what Moldova buys from Romania.
- Romania sells 0.07% of what the world exports of fresh fish; next come Norway (34.5%), Sweden (8.5%) and United Kingdom (6.4%). The rest of the world exported 1,712 times what Moldova buys from Romania.
- Romania sells 0.66% of what the world exports of paper boxes and packaging; next come China (20.9%), Germany (11.8%) and United States (7.3%). The rest of the world exported 2,206.3 times what Moldova buys from Romania.
- Romania sells 0.5% of what the world exports of gravel and crushed stone; next come Norway (13.1%), China (10.2%) and Germany (7.8%). The rest of the world exported 373.5 times what Moldova buys from Romania.
- Romania sells 0.49% of what the world exports of water; next come France (28.1%), Italy (19.7%) and China (13%). The rest of the world exported 708.4 times what Moldova buys from Romania.
- Romania sells 0.47% of what the world exports of ceramic building bricks; next come China (28.4%), Belgium (18.7%) and Netherlands (9%). The rest of the world exported 299.1 times what Moldova buys from Romania.
- Romania sells 1.1% of what the world exports of plasterboard and plaster articles; next come Mexico (14.3%), Germany (11.3%) and China (8.8%). The rest of the world exported 612 times what Moldova buys from Romania.
- Romania sells 0.69% of what the world exports of corrugated paper and paperboard; next come United States (24.5%), Germany (18.3%) and France (7%). The rest of the world exported 626.2 times what Moldova buys from Romania.
Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.
Seen from Romania
Moldova is Romania’s 19th-largest customer, with 1.6% of its exports.
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Sources and method
Sources and licenses
- CEPII BACI · Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0
- Natural Earth · Public domain
Methodology
The data come from CEPII BACI (Etalab 2.0 licence), which reconciles what the exporting and the importing country report, in current USD, FOB. Data up to 2024.
Dependence is the share of a country’s imports (or exports) that each partner accounts for. It does not measure whether a product has a substitute or how much it would cost to change supplier.
The concentration index (HHI) adds up the square of each partner’s share, in percent: it runs from 0 to 10,000. Its equivalent is 10,000 ÷ HHI, the number of partners of the same size that would give that value.
Products are HS4 headings of the 1992 nomenclature (some combine different goods), with a floor of $1 million per product and country.
The EU is the 27 current members in every year; the United Kingdom is outside the EU throughout the series.
Re-exports: countries that act as redistribution hubs carry their notice and the figures are not corrected.