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A market for the Metalworking and Habitat sectors

Romania

This analysis presents the Romanian market through imports of products in the Metalworking and Habitat sectors. It compares imports from the world with imports from Portugal, identifying the size of each group and Portugal’s share. The product baskets follow the same selection used in the other Master Export market documents.

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Romanian imports in 2025

Romanian imports from the world and Portugal

Sector

Habitat

In 2025, Romanian imports of the selected Habitat products reached USD 3.30 billion. Recorded imports from Portugal totalled USD 19.53 million, corresponding to an indicative share of 0.59%.

Imports in this basket grew by 6.7% in current US dollars. Recorded imports from Portugal fell by 1.8%, reducing the share from 0.64% in 2024 to 0.59% in 2025. Furniture and seats account for around 46% of imports of the selected products.

3.30 billion USDRomanian imports from the world
19.53 million USDImports from Portugal
0,59%Indicative Portugal share
Product group
Product groupMundo M USDPortugal M USDPortugal share
Furniture and seats1 531,79,320,61%
Mattresses and bedding articles144,90,910,63%
Lighting344,10,520,15%
Selected household textiles268,82,150,80%
Builders’ joinery and carpentry177,10,090,05%
Agglomerated cork and articles thereof7,53,6348,19%
Worked stone92,70,020,02%
Ceramic tiles and sanitary ware352,81,820,52%
Tableware and ornamental ceramics65,31,011,54%
Insulating safety glass and glassware *235,50,060,03%
Prefabricated buildings80,1s/r—
Total of available records3 300,519,530,59%

Imports reported by Romania in 2025. CIF values in millions of current US dollars. n/r: no record returned; this does not confirm a zero value. * Glass: no record was returned for imports from Portugal under HS 7008. Portugal totals sum the available records. Source: UN Comtrade; own calculations.

Portugal’s largest share is in agglomerated cork and articles thereof, at 48.19% of Romanian imports in this group. Tableware and ornamental ceramics account for 1.54%. By value, furniture and seats and agglomerated cork account for around 66% of recorded imports from Portugal in the basket.

Sector

Metallurgy and Metalworking

In 2025, Romania imported USD 69.33 billion across the broad basket of metals, machinery, equipment and transport equipment analysed. Recorded imports from Portugal totalled USD 338.2 million, equivalent to a 0.49% share.

Imports in the basket grew by 8.5% compared with 2024 in current US dollars. Recorded imports from Portugal increased by only 0.5%, while the share fell from 0.53% to 0.49%. Electrical and electronic equipment is the largest import group and the largest group of imports from Portugal.

69.33 billion USDRomanian imports from the world
338.2 million USDImports from Portugal
0,49%Portugal share
Product group
Product groupMundo M USDPortugal M USDPortugal share
Iron and steel and articles thereof9 553,422,30,23%
Outros metais e suas obras *3 845,15,20,14%
Tools and other articles of base metal1 584,45,10,32%
Mechanical machinery and equipment16 288,887,80,54%
Electrical and electronic equipment22 161,9134,90,61%
Road vehicles and parts thereof14 889,482,60,55%
Railway, aircraft and ships1 005,20,20,02%
Total of available records69 328,3338,20,49%

Imports reported by Romania in 2025. CIF values in millions of current US dollars. * Sum of available records; no records were returned for imports from Portugal under HS 78 and HS 81. Source: UN Comtrade; own calculations.

Electrical and electronic equipment, mechanical machinery and equipment, and road vehicles account for around 77% of imports in this basket. These three groups represent approximately 90% of the value of recorded imports from Portugal.

Methodology and sources

UN Comtrade, extract dated 30 October 2026. Reporter: Romania (642); flow: imports (M); partners: World (0) and Portugal (620); HS 2022 (H6). CIF values in current US dollars. Changes between 2024 and 2025 are calculated using unrounded values. They also reflect exchange-rate movements and do not measure growth in quantity. National data do not isolate the North and Centre regions.

Metalworking: HS 72–76 and 78–89. Habitat: HS 4418, 4504, 6802, 6907, 6910–6913, 7007–7008, 7013, 6301–6304, 9401 and 9403–9406. These are product baskets, not official sector totals, and include other applications. For imports from Portugal, records are missing for HS 78 and 81 in both years, HS 89 in 2024, HS 7008 in both years and HS 9406 in 2025. Totals sum the available records; shares use total imports in the basket from the world. The absence of a record does not confirm a zero value.

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