Romania’s trade gap widens by 15% y/y in Q3, reversing 1.9% contraction in H1
Verified: 2 outlets have reported this story since Nov 9.
This reversed the 1.9% y/y contraction in the trade deficit recorded in H1, resulting in a 3.6% y/y expansion of the trade gap to EUR 25.5 billion. However, this does not yet threaten a deterioration in the deficit-to-GDP ratio this year. The trade deficit as a share of GDP, calculated on a rolling four-quarter basis, stood at 8.7%, based on estimated Q3 GDP, unchanged from a year earlier. Normally, fiscal consolidation directly and households’ thinner private consumption should have stimulated a slightly narrower trade deficit, but the massive spending under the EU-funded RRF projects as…
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[Claude] Report 2 covers the same Romanian trade-gap data (EUR 25.54 billion, 3.6% y/y widening over nine months) that Report 1 describes, with no conflicting figures.
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