Automotiv_September

Monthly automotive aftermarket magazine
Turkey’s automotive exports
record 13.8 pct increase
Turkey's automotive exports in
July stood at $2.7 billion, with
an increase of 13.8 percent
compared to the same month last
year. According to the June data
of Uludağ Automotive Industry
Exporters' Association (OİB), the
sector's exports increased by
14.4 percent in the January-July
period, reaching $19.2 billion.
Exports of passenger cars
increased by 7 percent to $7.7
billion in the January-July period,
compared to the same period of
the previous year.
The automotive subindustry
exports rose by 22 percent,
exports of motor vehicles for
goods transport by 15 percent,
while bus-minibus-midibus
exports rose by 6 percent.
In terms of products group, the
automotive sub-industry exports
increased by 22 percent to
$913 million, while passenger
car exports surged by 5 percent
to $1.1 billion, motor vehicle
exports for goods transport by
11.5 percent to $487 million, and
midibus exports went up by 17
percent to $157 million.
In July, exports to the U.K.
increased by 30 percent,
followed by France with 36
percent. Exports to the U.S., on
the other hand, declined by 31
percent. Exports to Germany, the
leading market for the automotive
subindustry, increased by 9
percent, while exports to Italy
rose by 18 percent, followed
by France with an increase of
48 percent, Romania with 20
percent, the U.S. with 45 percent
and Russia with 42 percent.
Meanwhile, in bus-minibusmidibus
exports, there was an
increase of 42 percent in exports
to France. But Germany, another
important market in this respect,
experienced a decrease of 6
percent, while other leading
markets in this product group,
Italy, the U.K. and Spain showed
an increase of 75 percent,
102 percent and 77 percent,
respectively. On a country-bycountry
basis, the largest market
in July was Germany with $394
million in exports, with an
increase of 12 percent. It was
followed by the U.K. with $352
million. Exports to France, the
third-largest market for Turkey,
increased by 36 percent to
reach $322 million. Exports of
passenger cars to the U.K. rose by
39 percent while export of motor
vehicles for goods transport to the
country increased by 16 percent.
Passenger car exports to France,
on the other hand, increased by
39 percent and exports in the
automotive sub-industry rose
by 48 percent. In July, while
there was an increase in exports
to key markets - Slovenia by 42
percent, Poland by 23 percent,
Romania by 24 percent, Hungary
by 74 percent, and Russia by 29
percent, exports to Spain dropped
by 11.5 percent, to the U.S. by 31
percent, to Israel by 14.5 percent
and to Iran by 45 percent.
The increase in exports to
Slovenia was affected by the 58
percent increase in motor vehicle
exports along with the increase
of 26 percent in passenger cars.
In Spain, a 61 percent drop in
exports of motor vehicles for
goods also affected the overall
decline. Exports to the European
Union countries, the largest
market in country groups, rose by
15 percent to $2.2 million with
a share of 79 percent in exports.
With regards to the alternative
markets, African countries showed
an increase of 50 percent, while
exports to North American Free
Trade Zone fell by 20 percent.
48 SEPTEMBER 2018