Top 100 biggest exporters in Romania

The top 100 exporters on the Romanian market accounted for 52% of Romania’s overall exports, i.e. 19 billion euros last year, according to data supplied to ZF by the Romanian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

The ranking is dominated by producers of auto parts and recyclable materials, showing that Romania is only able to export raw material as far as food is concerned, with no food producer in the top 100, but only grain traders. The only end products exported are Dacia cars, Nokia phones, Arctic’s Beko refrigerators, Ford cars. Apart from that, everybody manufactures car components where the raw material is actually imported, furniture for Ikea, and clothing for Benetton. Ranking high are exporters of scrap metal, with companies such as Remat in Călărași being one of the big industrial plants which focused on exporting scrap metal.

Although exports were the leading sector of the economy in 2010, with their importance being underlined by all those who declare on a daily basis that Romania has come out of the crisis, two of the ministries that should hold detailed statistics of all big Romanian exporters failed to supply such a ranking. ZF sent at the end of last week requests for a list of the top 20 Romanian exporters to the Ministry of Economy and to the Finance Ministry, but they were not answered by edition close.