%0 Journal Article %T AN OVERVIEW OF THE GENERAL EVOLUTION OF THE ROMANIAN FOREIGN TRADE AFTER 1989, WHILE TRYING TO JOIN THE EU (I) %A GIURGIU Adriana %J Annals of the University of Oradea : Economic Science %D 2010 %I University of Oradea %X Those 17 years (since 1990 until the accession date to the EU) of institutional and economic-social reforms which, with all the good and bad things, brought Romania to the European Union starting with 1 January 2007, and should make us now be able to emphasise a few elements connected to the Romanian foreign trade. Thus, we consider that the present paper is of a significant importance for the specialists in the foreign trade problems, as well as for the Romanian and all other EU economic operators because we will try to realise a ¡°radiography¡± of all the general aspects and tendencies of the Romanian External Trade during the years 1990-2006, and their effects upon the Romania¡¯s current and future membership to the European Union, as part of the Common Trade Policy, by presenting some relevant indicators, such as: the volume of foreign trade, volume of exports and imports, GDP growth etc. %K Romanian foreign trade evolution %K imports %K exports %K balance sheet %K EU accession process %K GDP growth %U http://anale.steconomiceuoradea.ro/volume/2010/n1/007.pdf