05.11.2015

Romania’s Competition Council fears that stores, retail chains and producers might collude to keep in their profits the planned cut to 9% in the sales tax on food items starting June 1, watchdog more

05.05.2015

Romania’s industrial producer price index rose 0.4% in March, after a 0.2% increase in the previous month, the country’s statistics institute INS said Tuesday. more

04.07.2015

Food prices in Romania will go down by 15% starting June, following the planned cut in the value added tax rate for all food products, to 9% from 24% currently, Sorin Minea, head of the food industry more

04.02.2015

Romania’s industrial producer price index rose 0.2% in February, after a 0.3% decline in the previous month, the country’s statistics institute INS said Thursday. more

04.01.2015

The prices of new apartments in Bucharest rose 3.4% on the month in March, but in the first quarter of 2015, apartment prices were 2% lower compared with the same period a year earlier, according to more

03.29.2015

Prices for natural gas delivered to household consumers will decrease by an average 3.9% as of April 1, due to lower acquisition prices and distribution tariffs for gas supplied on the regulated more

03.20.2015

Natural gas bills could drop be 1-3% lower as of April, with the elimination of Russian imports, but the price of domestically produced gas could grow by 6-7% as of July, depending on the result of more

03.19.2015

Electronics and IT retailer Flanco expects an increase in shelf prices of IT products toward the end of April, due to the recent appreciation of the U.S. dollar. more

03.03.2015

Romania’s industrial producer price index fell 0.3% in January, after a 1.1% decline in the previous month, the country’s statistics institute INS said Tuesday. more

03.02.2015

Bucharest is the only large city where apartment prices continued to drop this year, especially after a 8.4% drop in asking prices in new residential compounds, while the old apartment market saw a more

02.23.2015

Romanians now pay more than Germans for a fill-up, but earn 5 times less more

02.19.2015

The decrease of the value added tax on meat, fruits and vegetables stipulated in the country's new Tax Code draft will reduce tax evasion and the effects of the Russian embargo, while the prices of more

02.03.2015

Romania’s industrial producer price index fell 1.1% in December, after a 0.1% decline in the previous month, the country’s statistics institute INS said Tuesday. more

02.02.2015

The first month of the year brought about a rising trend in asking prices for apartments in large Romanian cities, with a maximum growth of 17.4% in Cluj-Napoca, while prices in Bucharest dropped more

01.21.2015

Romanian house prices fell 2.3% in the third quarter of 2014, from the year-earlier period, the third largest decline in the European Union, official data showed Wednesday. more

01.12.2015

The price of a liter of gasoline went below the threshold of RON5 in Bucharest, after an over 20% decline from the July peak. While this is good news for drivers, analysts are warning there are also more

01.06.2015

The prices of gigacalorie for household and industrial consumers increased by 10.2% starting January 1, 2015, following a decision of Romania’s energy regulator ANRE, according to state-run more

01.06.2015

Romania’s industrial producer price index fell 0.1% in November, after a 0.4% decline in the previous month, the country’s statistics institute INS said Tuesday. more

12.19.2014

The average electricity prices for Romanian households that have not changed their power supplier will increase by 0.26% starting January, following increases and decreases in price components more

12.11.2014

A liter of gasoline can be bought in Romania for 5.52 lei, just like in October 2011, as the crude oil prices plummeted by 40% in less than half of year from the $115 high of June. more

12.02.2014

The Finance Ministry has notified large tobacco manufacturers it plans to change excise levels for next year and JTI Romania has calculated an impact of an additional RON0.20-RON0.25 in the price of more

12.02.2014

Romania’s industrial producer price index fell 0.4% in October, after a 0.2% decline in the previous month, the country’s statistics institute INS said Tuesday. more

11.24.2014

Romania's energy regulator and several private companies have called on the Department for Energy to postpone by at least one more year the deregulation of the natural gas market for co-generation more

11.10.2014

Products bought online can be cheaper by as much as 40% than physical stores during promotional sales campaigns and the biggest price differences were registered for perfumes, books, electronics and more

11.06.2014

Romania’s central bank governor Mugur Isarescu said Thursday that tobacco and alcohol prices will decline in 2015, because the calendar for the alignment of excise duties has already been fulfilled. more