The Romanian agri-food trade has registered a permanent deficit during the last three decades (with a brief exception period, 2013-2014). The deficit was deepened by the negative trade balance with the EU countries, but since 2010, the deficit has been partially offset by the trade surplus with...

Over the last three decades, the Romanian agri-food trade has shown a permanent deficit, starting with 1990 (since the resumption of imports) and until now, except for two years only. The paper analyses the evolution of the agri-food trade deficit in the main periods (transition, pre-accession,...