By the end of 2012 Romania will be able to export food products for the first time since the revolution, which should help cut into a trade deficit that hit €300m last year. In the last five years, exports have increased from €1.1bn to €3.9bn while imports increased from €3.3bn to €4.2bn.
Romanian exports of agricultural products will be made up primarily of wheat, corn, rapeseed and sunflowers, deliveries that would be made by large multinational traders.
Few small agricultural producers are able to export while food factories are only now making inroads onto foreign markets in order to replace the contracts they lost abroad 1990. While Romania exported commodities, it imports sugar, pork meat or other food products.
