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Automotive Industry in China
Figure 13. Percentage of Export in Production. Source: InterChina.
2.3 Exports: figures and current markets
It has not been possible to know which figures are more accurate regarding the
exports. The logic reasoning says that the information from customs should be a
reliable one. However the reality is that the numbers from customs are much bigger
than the numbers from any other sources.
Passenger
Database
Car Customs (8703) Fourin(CAAM) CEIC(CAAM) Automarket
2007 1,617,350 246,025 257,519 264,501
2006 1,433,051 119,394 115,467 126,344
2005 963,852 42,881 38,785 47,185
Figure 14. Comparative of export data from different sources of information.
In Annex VI, we can see in more detail the gap between different sources.
In Annex V we have the data for exports from China Customs.
It is possible that the definition of Passenger cars for customs include some kind of
vehicles like buggies that the other databases do not include. However, even if this is
the case, this cannot justify such a big difference between the data from customs and
the other sources.
Nevertheless, we have used the data from customs, that are the most detailed and
complete ones we have, to study the exports of Passenger cars by regions and by
countries. In 2008 the exports to U.S. decreased considerably as we can see in Figure
16. Figure 15 shows that now Europe is the main region for exported cars from China.
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