Moneycorp Romania: The economic recovery depends on stimulating foreign direct investment and exports

Romania must focus on encouraging domestic production and exports, in the context in which opportunities for “made in Romania” products will be significant in the medium and long term. Investors’ fears about the safety of investments and “made in China” products are likely to accentuate the phenomenon of relocation of production facilities in Europe, and Romania must make every administrative and logistical effort to be on the list of attractive countries for greenfield investments, shows an analysis made by experts from Moneycorp Romania.

Moneycorp says that in an economy severely affected by the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, many investors will look with sufficient reservations at the Chinese market, the world’s largest exporter. The fact that the supply chains were interrupted so easily, due to the health crisis, will make many rethink their portfolio of suppliers and their location, the focus being on bringing production closer to the sales area, to the end customer.

In the new international context, in which the USA and the EU are rethinking their macroeconomic strategies, Romanian companies have chances to win significant contracts, given that the range of export products has increased significantly in recent years.

“Romania recorded, in 2019, the best result in history in terms of exports, of 69 billion euros, in line with our estimates,” says Cosmin Bucur, general manager of Moneycorp Romania.

“However, the lockdown period, generated by the pandemic, started well, as well as the next months of gradual relaunch of the activity will erode strongly from the export potential. In this context, our estimates indicate a level of exports of 60 billion euros this year and a return to the border of 70 billion euros in 2021, “he added.

For comparison, in 2010, the Romanian economy reported exports of 37.3 billion euros, half compared to 2019. 76.6% of exports went last year to European Union countries.

“The evolution of Romanian exports will depend mainly on the way in which our main trading partners from Europe, Germany, Italy and France will recover economically. The premises are still in the area of ​​uncertainty, but, given the huge financial packages announced by Brussels for the relaunch of the European economy, everything will depend on how the eurozone economies will work together for economic recovery,” Bucur added.

For Romania, the next period will bring a whole series of opportunities given that, in terms of price-quality ratio, Romanian products are in an attractive area, from construction materials to products agri-food, textiles and cars.