Romania: Exporter Guide

Romania and its 19.3 million consumers offer increasingly viable market opportunities for U.S. food and agriculture. In 2020, Romania imported $10.2 billion of food and agricultural products, of which two percent, or $177.26 million, were sourced from the United States. During the first eight months of 2021, total Romanian food and agricultural imports increased by 21 percent over the corresponding period in 2020. Although in the first pandemic year U.S. exports declined, mostly due to changing market dynamics in the wake of the COVID-19, in the first eight months of 2021 U.S. direct imports increased by 53 percent, while indirect imports declined by seven percent. U.S. products with strong market potential include fish and seafood, tree nuts, groundnuts, wine, distilled spirits, dried fruit, and innovative food processing ingredients.