BNR: Foreign direct investment approaches 4.8 billion euro, in 2017

The net flow of foreign direct investments amounted to 4.797 billion euro in 2027, of this amount 3.968 billion was own capital contribution and 829 million euro net credit from foreign investors, the National Bank of Romania informs in a press release sent to AGERPRES on Friday. 

As regards the balance of direct foreign investments, on 31 December 2017, it parked at 75.851 billion euro, of which 52.746 billion own capital, including reinvested profit (69.5 percent) and 23.205 billion net credit received from foreign investors (30.5 percent). 

The net revenues from capital participation amounted to 5.259 billion euro and were calculated as the difference between profits after taxation achieved by the FDI enterprises, whose profits accounted for 8.068 billion euro and the losses incurred by the FDI enterprises which stood at 2.809 billion euro. 

The net revenues from interests stood at 618 million euro and were calculated as the difference between the interests received by the direct foreign investors for the loans granted for the enterprises owned in Romania and the interests paid by these for the loans received from their enterprises in Romania, both directly and through other non-resident companies within the group. 

These data were centralised in the statistical survey to determine foreign direct investments (FDI), conducted by Romania's National Bank, in collaboration with the National Institute of Statistics. The main objective of this survey was to determine the FDI balance of payments in Romania on 31 December 2017 and the FDI flows throughout the 2017 financial exercise, in resident direct foreign investment enterprises. 

"The FDI statistical survey was conducted in compliance with the methodological requirements of the International Monetary Fund's Balance of Payments and International Investment Position Manual (sixth edition, BPM6).