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Trade between Romania and the United States

In 2024, Romania exported $4 billion to the United States and imported $1.4 billion. Romania ran a surplus of $2.6 billion with the United States, compared with a surplus of $1.5 billion in 2019. The United States was Romania’s 14th largest trading partner (2% of its trade), and Romania was the United States’ 65th (0.1%).

Summary

Romania → United States
$4billion
United States → Romania
$1.4billion
Romania’s balance
$2.6billion

Balance

Romania’s trade balance with the United States

Trade between Romania and the United States grew 7.8-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 4
  • Imports 1.4
  • Balance +2.6

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$273 million$430 million-$157 million
1996$286 million$433 million-$147 million
1997$424 million$455 million-$30 million
1998$435 million$493 million-$57 million
1999$472 million$366 million$107 million
2000$498 million$405 million$93 million
2001$537 million$601 million-$65 million
2002$817 million$545 million$272 million
2003$825 million$661 million$164 million
2004$949 million$941 million$9 million
2005$1.4 billion$1.1 billion$242 million
2006$1.2 billion$1.3 billion-$36 million
2007$1.1 billion$950 million$150 million
2008$1.2 billion$1.2 billion-$37 million
2009$767 million$700 million$67 million
2010$1 billion$860 million$172 million
2011$1.5 billion$1.1 billion$361 million
2012$1.6 billion$1.1 billion$433 million
2013$1.7 billion$840 million$831 million
2014$2.1 billion$957 million$1.1 billion
2015$2.1 billion$746 million$1.3 billion
2016$1.9 billion$730 million$1.1 billion
2017$2.2 billion$1.3 billion$893 million
2018$2.6 billion$1.1 billion$1.5 billion
2019$2.5 billion$959 million$1.5 billion
2020$2.2 billion$999 million$1.2 billion
2021$3 billion$824 million$2.2 billion
2022$3.7 billion$1.2 billion$2.4 billion
2023$3.8 billion$1.4 billion$2.4 billion
2024$4 billion$1.4 billion$2.6 billion

What they sell each other

What Romania sells to the United States

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

  1. Alloy steel ingots and semi-finished products$299 million · 7.4%
    206 thousand tonnes
  2. Semi-finished steel$237 million · 5.9%
    311 thousand tonnes
  3. New tires$232 million · 5.8%
    36 thousand tonnes · Romania’s destinations
  4. Other electrical devices$225 million · 5.6%
    1 thousand tonnes
  5. Auto parts$186 million · 4.6%
    8 thousand tonnes · Romania’s destinations
  6. Control panels$154 million · 3.8%
    1 thousand tonnes
  7. Ball and roller bearings$114 million · 2.8%
    6 thousand tonnes
  8. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$114 million · 2.8%
    1 thousand tonnes · Romania’s destinations
  9. Cameras and broadcast equipment$106 million · 2.6%
    282 tonnes
  10. Seamless steel pipes$103 million · 2.6%
    48 thousand tonnes

What the United States sells to Romania

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

  1. Military weapons$112 million · 7.8%
    327 tonnes
  2. Airplanes and helicopters$103 million · 7.2%
    90 tonnes · the United States’ destinations
  3. Cameras and broadcast equipment$85 million · 5.9%
    122 tonnes
  4. Refined petroleum$75 million · 5.2%
    104 thousand tonnes · the United States’ destinations
  5. Turbojets and gas turbines$64 million · 4.4%
    148 tonnes · the United States’ destinations
  6. Polyethylene$35 million · 2.5%
    22 thousand tonnes · the United States’ destinations
  7. Stainless steel strip$33 million · 2.3%
    412 tonnes
  8. Bombs, missiles and ammunition$32 million · 2.2%
    35 tonnes
  9. Flow, level and pressure meters$29 million · 2%
    235 tonnes
  10. Natural gas and LPG$28 million · 1.9%
    41 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Constanța to Los Angeles.

The estimated sea route between Constanța and Los Angeles is 9,540 nautical miles (17,668 km) long: ≈ 22–28.5 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

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

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$2.7 billion · 49.4%
  2. Air$2.8 billion · 50.6%

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

How much each matters to the other

The United States was Romania’s 14th largest trading partner (2% of its trade), and Romania was the United States’ 65th (0.1%).

The United States in Romania’s trade
2.3%
The United States’ rank among Romania’s partners
14th
Romania in the United States’ trade
0.1%
Romania’s rank among the United States’ partners
65th

Compare with

Other partners of Romania

Other partners of the United States

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.