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Trade between Portugal and Romania

In 2024, Portugal exported $649 million to Romania and imported $597 million. Portugal ran a surplus of $52 million with Romania, compared with a surplus of $245 million in 2019. Romania was Portugal’s 25th largest trading partner (0.6% of its trade), and Portugal was Romania’s 32nd (0.5%).

Summary

Portugal → Romania
$649million
Romania → Portugal
$597million
Portugal’s balance
$52million

Balance

Portugal’s trade balance with Romania

Trade between Portugal and Romania grew 76.4-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 649
  • Imports 597
  • Balance +51.9

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$5 million$11 million-$6 million
1996$20 million$13 million$7 million
1997$8 million$15 million-$8 million
1998$16 million$20 million-$4 million
1999$16 million$38 million-$22 million
2000$23 million$32 million-$9 million
2001$35 million$22 million$13 million
2002$51 million$36 million$15 million
2003$90 million$47 million$43 million
2004$100 million$56 million$44 million
2005$131 million$61 million$70 million
2006$167 million$46 million$121 million
2007$147 million$49 million$98 million
2008$246 million$187 million$60 million
2009$198 million$273 million-$75 million
2010$277 million$231 million$46 million
2011$334 million$274 million$61 million
2012$327 million$212 million$115 million
2013$377 million$215 million$161 million
2014$383 million$184 million$199 million
2015$317 million$168 million$149 million
2016$438 million$166 million$272 million
2017$438 million$259 million$179 million
2018$512 million$342 million$169 million
2019$525 million$280 million$245 million
2020$542 million$297 million$245 million
2021$524 million$399 million$125 million
2022$581 million$465 million$116 million
2023$654 million$570 million$84 million
2024$649 million$597 million$52 million

What they sell each other

What Portugal sells to Romania

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

  1. Auto parts$101 million · 15.6%
    8 thousand tonnes · Portugal’s destinations
  2. 350 tonnes
  3. Control instruments$48 million · 7.4%
    302 tonnes
  4. 220 tonnes
  5. 539 tonnes
  6. Radio receivers$19 million · 2.9%
    280 tonnes
  7. Cables and wire$19 million · 2.9%
    2 thousand tonnes · Romania’s sources
  8. Centrifuges and filters$14 million · 2.2%
    420 tonnes
  9. 744 tonnes
  10. Combed wool yarn$12 million · 1.9%
    616 tonnes

What Romania sells to Portugal

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

  1. Cars$126 million · 21.1%
    14 thousand tonnes · Romania’s destinations
  2. Sunflower seeds$72 million · 12.1%
    146 thousand tonnes
  3. Auto parts$42 million · 7.1%
    5 thousand tonnes · Romania’s destinations
  4. Corn$25 million · 4.2%
    131 thousand tonnes
  5. Cigarettes and cigars$19 million · 3.1%
    683 tonnes
  6. Barley$18 million · 3%
    83 thousand tonnes
  7. Control panels$14 million · 2.4%
    184 tonnes
  8. Cyclic hydrocarbons$14 million · 2.4%
    13 thousand tonnes
  9. 3 thousand tonnes
  10. 127 tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Sines to Constanța.

The estimated sea route between Sines and Constanța is 2,324 nautical miles (4,304 km) long: ≈ 5.5–7 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: 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$953 million · 76.5%
  2. Air$293 million · 23.5%

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

How much each matters to the other

Romania was Portugal’s 25th largest trading partner (0.6% of its trade), and Portugal was Romania’s 32nd (0.5%).

Romania in Portugal’s trade
0.6%
Romania’s rank among Portugal’s partners
25th
Portugal in Romania’s trade
0.5%
Portugal’s rank among Romania’s partners
32nd

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Sources and methodology

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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.