557 Romanian suppliers, ready to approach
The Romania file brings together all the Romanian manufacturers in the directory, across every category: from the beech-furniture factory to the textile contractor in lohn, from the automotive wiring specialist to the phytotherapy lab. Each one is registered with the official registry (Registrul Comerțului), with its public contact details and a confidence score. Ideal if you are targeting a market (Romania) rather than a single universe.
We are a firm based in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, since 2018, in daily contact with online sellers who set up their European company, register for VAT and import their products. This directory extends that work: it was built by cross-checking the Romanian trade register (Registrul Comerțului), keeping only manufacturers that are genuinely registered (CUI number), then removing dead websites and personal email addresses (GDPR compliance). You are not paying for a raw export, but for a cleaned, structured and scored database. Latest compilation from the official registries: 2026.
Every record is designed to let you act straight away:
What each record contains
Legal name and local name, official registration number (EIK in Bulgaria, CUI in Romania, MERSIS in Turkey), universe, category and sub-segment, region and city, products, white-label capability, headcount, year founded, website, generic email and phone when public, notes and sources.
A spreadsheet ready to run
Built-in tracking columns (My status, Priority, Contacted on, Follow up on, My notes) with drop-down menus and colour coding: your directory becomes a mini-CRM for outreach, filterable by country, city or universe.
Every supplier is a full record, up to 24 fields per record. Here is a sample record (data redacted):
Illustrative preview (data redacted). Each record holds up to 24 fields plus 5 tracking columns. The real contact details (website, email, phone, CUI) are in the file delivered to buyers, never on this page. The Romania file brings together the 557 Romanian suppliers, across every category.
Each row is a manufacturer in the Romania file: 24 fields per record plus 5 tracking columns. Contact details masked here, complete in the delivered file.
We prefer fair expectations to a fine promise. The directory gives you qualified contacts to approach yourself, not a guarantee of an order:
- Non-exhaustive list: the directory is a qualified selection, not a census of every manufacturer. We list those we have identified and cross-checked against the official registries, and we enrich it regularly; the absence of a specific company is therefore not a flaw in the file;
- you contact the suppliers directly, with no intermediary and no commission;
- responsiveness and terms (MOQ, prices, lead times) belong to each manufacturer and vary;
- it is a digital file delivered immediately: by ticking the consent box at checkout, you request immediate delivery and expressly waive the 14-day right of withdrawal (digital content);
- one-off payment, no subscription.
Three ways to reach the suppliers
Take just your universe, a whole country, or everything at once. It is up to you, depending on your project.
One category
A single category, across all three countries.
- 10 universes to choose from (fashion, beauty, food...)
- A single category, across the 3 countries
- Ideal if you are targeting one product
Romania
557 Romanian manufacturers listed, every category together, from beech furniture to auto wiring: public contact details, contract (lohn) or white-label capability and a confidence score.
- 557 suppliers, 10 categories, official registry (CUI)
- Up to 24 fields per record: lohn, white label, contacts
- Mini-CRM spreadsheet, instant delivery, €57
Full pack
All 10 categories and 3 countries in a single file.
- All categories × all countries
- More than 2,000 manufacturers
- You save €183 vs à la carte
One-off payment, no subscription. Spreadsheet file delivered immediately, digital content (waiver of the right of withdrawal at checkout).
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Why source in Romania?
Since it joined the European Union in 2007, Romania has been one of the continent's great workshops: a country of nearly 19 million people, with a broad industrial base and a workforce still markedly cheaper than in the West. For an online seller who sells in France, that brings together three assets: the legal security of the single market, a competitive production cost and an industrial depth that few Eastern European neighbours can match, from cars to furniture and contract textile.
On tax, corporate tax is 16%, supplemented by a micro-enterprise regime that taxes turnover (not profit) for small structures, subject to threshold and activity conditions. Standard VAT has risen to 21% (up from 19% on 1 August 2025, with a single reduced rate of 11%). This framework, a little heavier than neighbouring Bulgaria's (10% corporate tax), remains broadly competitive at European level, all the more so given the breadth of the Romanian industrial base and its capacity to absorb both large volumes and small runs.
Unlike Bulgaria, which switched to the euro in January 2026, Romania keeps its currency, the leu (RON). That is a concrete difference: even though many export quotes are denominated in euros, part of your supplier's costs stays in leu, which introduces an exchange-rate risk on long or recurring orders. Add that the very real Romanian wage advantage is eroding year on year as pay rises. Romania stays highly competitive, but the argument is neither "the cheapest" nor "zero exchange-rate risk": it is industrial depth, at a controlled cost and three days by truck from France.
What does Romania manufacture? An industry overview
The country is organised around a few clearly identified hubs: București and its ring (Ilfov) for logistics and food, Cluj-Napoca for industry and health, Timișoara and Arad for automotive and textile in the West, Sibiu and Brașov in the centre, Bukovina (around Suceava) and Maramureș (around Baia Mare) for wood and leather. Each feeds an industry that our directory details by category.
Romania's showcase is furniture. The sector exports on the order of €2.45 billion a year and ships abroad nearly 83% of its output, according to industry federations, with beech as its signature wood (more than half of the material). Upholstery and subcontracting for large retailers concentrate in Maramureș, around players such as Aramis in Baia Mare, one of the country's largest private employers. This is the heart of the Romanian furniture industry, from solid beech to upholstery.
Its heaviest strength is automotive: the sector accounts for around 13% of GDP and about a quarter of exports, according to trade bodies. Romania assembles cars (Dacia at Mioveni, Ford in Craiova) but above all mass-produces wiring harnesses and embedded electronics (Yazaki, Leoni, Kromberg & Schubert), tyres (Continental in Timișoara, Pirelli in Slatina) and gearboxes. For an online seller, the interest lies less in OEM than in aftermarket, accessories and trailers: see the Romanian automotive hub and its suppliers.
The country is also a quiet giant of contract textile and footwear (lohn, or CMT): it sews for Western European brands, with lower minimum quantities than in Asia. Leather footwear is especially strong (Romania is one of the EU's top producers), around Marelbo at Vicovu de Sus in Bukovina and the Timișoara-Veneto leather axis inherited from Italian subcontracting. These are the lohn textile and footwear contractors in the directory.
Add integrated organic phytotherapy, a genuine Romanian speciality where the active ingredient is grown on site (Hofigal, which produces a large share of its raw materials organically, or pharma-GMP labs like Fiterman: our makers of supplements and plant extracts); regional food and drink (native-grape Fetească wines, Apidava acacia honey, PGI Salam de Sibiu, Cris-Tim charcuterie: our food and beverage producers); corrugated board, dense with large makers (DS Smith, VPK, Dunapack: our packaging and printing manufacturers); and PVC joinery, with players such as QFort in Craiova who already export to France (our construction and materials manufacturers).
Romania does not manufacture everything. Jewellery is almost non-existent in production (most players are importers or resellers): do not try to source jewellery here. Bicycles are assembled (frames imported from Asia), never made end to end: there is no such thing as a "frame made in Romania". The Romanian solar module is not yet an industrial reality (the plants are at the project stage). Mass-market toys come from Chinese imports; only the niche of artisanal wooden toys is credible. Finally, some "manufacturers" are really resellers (Benvenuti distributes Italian goods, Secom has products made in Spain and Italy): always insist on the factory address and the CUI. And stay measured about the "Carpathian forests" argument, which carries a well-documented environmental controversy.
Importing from Romania: customs, VAT, the leu, lead times
Like Bulgaria, Romania is in the European Union: buying there is an intra-Community purchase, not an import. That means no customs duties, no EORI number and no IOSS. VAT is settled under the reverse charge (neutral on your return), provided you have an intra-Community VAT number valid in VIES and keep the proof of transport. For your online sales in the EU, it is the OSS that applies above €10,000 of distance sales a year, never the IOSS.
Romania's real asset is its road geography, but it is not uniform. The west of the country (Timișoara, Arad) is only about 1,700 km from France, nearly three days on the road; București, further east, sits around 2,300 km. As a rough guide, reckon 4 to 5 days for a full truckload (FTL) and 5 to 6 days for groupage (LTL), against 4 to 6 weeks by sea from China. Since Romania entered land Schengen in January 2025, trucks no longer wait at the EU's internal borders, which has made these lead times more reliable.
One point of vigilance specific to Romania: the currency. The country has not adopted the euro and bears part of its costs in leu (RON). Where a Bulgarian supplier now invoices you in euros with no conversion, a Romanian partner may expose you to an exchange-rate risk if the quote is in leu or indexed to it. Nothing prohibitive (Romania is in SEPA and many exporters invoice in euros), but it is a parameter to frame from the negotiation, especially on contracts with regular restocking. This is the main difference, in practice, between sourcing in Romania and sourcing in the euro area.
On the groundApproaching a Romanian manufacturer: how to do it
Three reflexes save weeks. First, cross-check the registration: every record in the directory carries the CUI (tax identification code), which you can look up at the Registrul Comerțului; a real manufacturer has a factory address, not just a showroom, which lets you rule out resellers posing as producers. Next, ask for a sample and a quote in EXW and in FOB to compare on a sound basis, and insist on your sector's certifications: FSC/PEFC (and EUDR compliance) for furniture and wood, IATF 16949 for auto parts, EU-GMP for supplements, CE and DoP for construction materials. Finally, play the small run: Romanian contract manufacturing (lohn) is made for low minimum quantities and fast restocking, where the automotive ecosystem targets large volumes. English is common in export teams; a precise, professional first contact by generic email is enough to open the conversation. All the minimum quantities, prices and lead times mentioned here are indicative, to be confirmed by quote.
The natural extensionThe company that goes with your sourcing
Sourcing in Romania changes your logistics; it can also lead you to rethink your administrative base. To benefit from the VAT reverse charge on your intra-EU purchases, you need an intra-Community VAT number valid in VIES; to collect your sales cleanly and import without friction, a solid European structure. Nothing obliges you to set it up in Romania: what matters is to sell from a European base consistent with your supply.
That is exactly what Fenchell's Eurotrade package does: a Bulgarian company operable 100% remotely, with corporate tax at 10%, among the lowest in the EU, the VAT number, the EORI and the infrastructure that makes the whole thing genuinely manageable from anywhere. A European base consistent with European sourcing.
An online seller who sources in Romania and sells in the EU gains by operating from a stable European base: the same single market, VAT and EORI in the same place, and a light corporate tax. Many choose neighbouring Bulgaria for this (10% corporate tax, the euro since 2026). See the guide: set up a Bulgarian company remotely.
Source in Europe, invoice from Europe
The Eurotrade package sets up your Bulgarian company remotely, with VAT, EORI and an infrastructure designed to run everything from home, from €890. The ideal tax base for European supply.
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General information current as at 14 July 2026, not personalised legal, tax, customs or accounting advice. Minimum quantities, prices, lead times and logistics costs are indicative orders of magnitude, to be confirmed by quote with each supplier. Customs and tax regimes (the low-value consignment reform, the A.TR certificate, OSS/IOSS VAT thresholds) may change: always check the applicable texts and compliance (CE, health, cosmetics) in the country of destination. Fenchell has no commercial affiliation with the vast majority of the listed manufacturers and receives no commission on your dealings with them. Fenchell Capital OOD, a Bulgarian firm based in Plovdiv (EIK 207945095).