European Automotive Industry in the Century of Asia

Fig. 1.3: The world’s largest passenger car manufacturers (2022)

Source: OICA, UN (2022); ranked by number of passenger cars produced

1.1.3 Foreign Trade in Passenger Cars by Country Considering the largest passenger car producers in terms of trade volume, countries such as China, the UK, France, the US and Iran are in deficit, i.e., they import more cars than they export, based on the UN Comtrade database. Japan (USD 146 billion) and Germany (USD 88 billion) recorded the highest surplus of passenger car exports over imports in 2022. Czechia achieved a positive balance of USD 20.3 billion.

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