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Trade between Belgium and Romania

In 2024, Belgium exported $3.3 billion to Romania and imported $1.5 billion. Belgium ran a surplus of $1.8 billion with Romania, compared with a surplus of $894 million in 2019. Romania was Belgium’s 25th largest trading partner (0.6% of its trade), and Belgium was Romania’s 16th (2%).

Summary

Belgium → Romania
$3.3billion
Romania → Belgium
$1.5billion
Belgium’s balance
$1.8billion

Balance

Belgium’s trade balance with Romania

Trade between Belgium and Romania grew 13.7-fold since 1995

USD billions (current). Belgium’s exports and imports; bars: its balance (green surplus, red deficit).

  • Exports 3.3
  • Imports 1.5
  • Balance +1.8

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$171 million$181 million-$10 million
1996$208 million$162 million$47 million
1997$208 million$186 million$22 million
1998$239 million$239 million$44 thousand
1999$201 million$211 million-$9 million
2000$212 million$277 million-$64 million
2001$273 million$302 million-$29 million
2002$297 million$314 million-$18 million
2003$371 million$455 million-$84 million
2004$512 million$726 million-$215 million
2005$603 million$714 million-$111 million
2006$822 million$678 million$143 million
2007$1.4 billion$635 million$718 million
2008$1.6 billion$780 million$822 million
2009$1 billion$749 million$293 million
2010$1.3 billion$876 million$388 million
2011$1.5 billion$964 million$559 million
2012$1.4 billion$863 million$529 million
2013$1.5 billion$1 billion$502 million
2014$1.6 billion$1.2 billion$394 million
2015$1.5 billion$1.1 billion$432 million
2016$1.6 billion$1.2 billion$387 million
2017$1.9 billion$1.4 billion$485 million
2018$2.3 billion$1.4 billion$894 million
2019$2.3 billion$1.4 billion$894 million
2020$2.3 billion$1.3 billion$996 million
2021$2.8 billion$1.5 billion$1.3 billion
2022$3.1 billion$1.8 billion$1.3 billion
2023$3.3 billion$2.1 billion$1.1 billion
2024$3.3 billion$1.5 billion$1.8 billion

What they sell each other

What Belgium sells to Romania

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$340 million · 10.3%
    1 thousand tonnes · Belgium’s destinations
  2. Copper wire$260 million · 7.9%
    28 thousand tonnes
  3. Cars$190 million · 5.7%
    12 thousand tonnes · Belgium’s destinations
  4. Tractors$98 million · 2.9%
    10 thousand tonnes · Belgium’s destinations
  5. Refined petroleum$80 million · 2.4%
    41 thousand tonnes · Belgium’s destinations
  6. Microchips$70 million · 2.1%
    205 tonnes · Belgium’s destinations
  7. Auto parts$57 million · 1.7%
    6 thousand tonnes · Belgium’s destinations
  8. Vaccines, blood and antisera$56 million · 1.7%
    33 tonnes · Belgium’s destinations
  9. Frozen vegetables$56 million · 1.7%
    39 thousand tonnes
  10. Coated flat steel$55 million · 1.7%
    51 thousand tonnes

What Romania sells to Belgium

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Cables and wire$118 million · 8%
    15 thousand tonnes · Romania’s destinations
  2. Cars$93 million · 6.2%
    15 thousand tonnes · Romania’s destinations
  3. Seats and chairs$65 million · 4.4%
    5 thousand tonnes
  4. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$63 million · 4.3%
    6 thousand tonnes · Romania’s destinations
  5. Auto parts$63 million · 4.2%
    5 thousand tonnes · Romania’s destinations
  6. Rapeseed (canola)$48 million · 3.3%
    186 thousand tonnes
  7. Parts for switchgear$47 million · 3.1%
    8 thousand tonnes
  8. Aircraft parts$44 million · 3%
    112 tonnes
  9. Cameras and broadcast equipment$43 million · 2.9%
    124 tonnes
  10. Liquid pumps$39 million · 2.7%
    1 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Antwerp to Constanța.

The estimated sea route between Antwerp and Constanța is 3,478 nautical miles (6,441 km) long: ≈ 8–10.5 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Strait of Dover, Strait of Gibraltar, Dardanelles and Bosporus.

Sailing estimate without port calls, waiting or transshipment; not a schedule. One main reference port per country: in large countries it does not represent all of its ports.

Split by transport mode

  1. Sea$3.6 billion · 74.1%
  2. Air$1.2 billion · 25.9%

Mode estimated from value per kilo and geography; both directions together.

How much each matters to the other

Romania was Belgium’s 25th largest trading partner (0.6% of its trade), and Belgium was Romania’s 16th (2%).

Romania in Belgium’s trade
0.6%
Romania’s rank among Belgium’s partners
25th
Belgium in Romania’s trade
2%
Belgium’s rank among Romania’s partners
16th

Compare with

Other partners of Belgium

Other partners of Romania

Sources and methodology

Sources and licenses

Methodology

Goods trade from CEPII BACI (BACI_HS92_V202601), in current US dollars, with exports and imports reconciled between countries. The transport mode is our own estimate based on value per kilo and geography. The sea route comes from our own network derived from World Bank shipping density (not from nautical charts), between one main reference port per country (World Port Index); days are the distance at 14 and 18 knots, without port calls or waiting. Data up to 2024.

Hong Kong, Singapore, the Netherlands and Belgium re-export goods from other countries: their figures include transit.