Drawing on recent literature on the issue of services offshoring, this essay aims to give an overall picture on the dynamics, scale and effects of this phenomenon in Romania. It attempts to assess the extent to which the image arising from official statistics is consistent with growing anecdotal evidence on Romania’s increasing attractiveness as location for offshoring decisions by companies from the EU and other parts of the world. The findings of the empirical investigation show that the remarkable export growth in some individual services categories in the last years, as well as the positive changes under way in the patterns of services trade are largely due to enhanced offshoring activities hosted by the Romanian economy.