He said that the offices for the economic promotion of Romania from Dublin, Copenhagen, Lisbon, Tripoli and Damascus, will be closed temporarily and one of the three economic advisers of Romania in Beijing will be sent to Hong Kong.
Vosganian said that Romania currently has 83 sales representatives abroad, while entire areas of traditional markets for Romanian exports are not covered.
For example, Romania has got in the two Americas less sales representatives than France has in Bucharest.
The Minister of economy said that Romania's exports have been one of the pillars of economic growth in 2013, together with industry and agriculture, this year could lead to a growth of 2.2-2.5%.
Over the first five months of 2013, Romania's trade deficit was 2.2 billion Euros, by 1.5 billion Euros less than in the same period of 2012.
Exports rose to € 19.7 billion, while imports fell to € 21.9 billion.
Vosganian pointed out that almost 80% of Romania's exports are manufactured products - 43% machinery and transport equipment 33.8% - other manufactured products, 6.3% - chemicals and related products.