Gains and losses of Romanian agri-food products on EU intra-trade market

The paper attempts to highlight the evolution of the main Romanian agri-food products on EU intra-trade market, in the last two decades. We would like to analyse the products which lost the markets and those which have had a positive evolution. The paper approaches both the theoretical aspects and the practical aspects from the market, following the studies and analysis mentioned bellow. This analysis used the data provided by National Institute of Statistics (INS), EUROSTAT, internet databases and articles periodically published by the institutions specialized in economic analysis, as well as other specialty works, studies and working papers done by different researchers across Europe. Last but not least, we use the partial results from the FP7 Project COMPETE (International comparisons of product supply chains in the agro-food sectors: determinants of their competitiveness and performance on EU and international markets), financed by European Communities and National Ministry of Education and leaded by IAMO (Halle/Saale-Germania). By present paper we would like to put in evidence and in balance, the weakness of the policies elaborated by Romanian governments in the last decades, the lack of investments and protection in some important and traditional branches and like a consequence, the disappearance of many Romanian products from the EU market and in the same time, the “partial success†of a few products which are still on the market