1st ICAI 2020

International Conference on Automotive Industry 2020

Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic

the automotive industry and the forms in which it is published is therefore key to its successful use.

2. Problem Formulation and Methodology The aim of this paper is to compare sources of statistical data on the automotive industry in terms of their differences, periodicity and regular updating. It presents an overview of the sources, as well as current conditions and developments in the automobile industries of Czechia and Germany that are impacting the Czech auto industry. 2.1 Model and Data In order to track developments in the automotive industry it is necessary to be aware of the relevant public sources of data available on the international level in the European Union. Moreover, for making comparisons and ranking the importance of individual member states in auto production, EU statistics are essential to the evaluations and decision making that will affect the industry, both at the European level and at the national level (in the case of this paper, we focus on Czechia and Germany). Germany was chosen as the second member state included in our study for several reasons. It is the largest automobile producer in the European Union (in 2018 it produced about a third of all passenger cars. Passenger cars are motor vehicles with at least four wheels, used for the transport of passengers, and comprising no more than eight seats in addition to the driver’s seat.) manufactured in the EU, well ahead of the next largest producer, Spain, which made 13% of the EU’s passenger cars that year) a one off largest exporters, with Japan, Canada together producing more than third of all exports. On the other hand, the USA, Germany, and the United Kingdom were the biggest importers, mainly for the purpose of reexporting (Nagy J., 2018). Germany is also Czechia’s most important trading partner. Fluctuations in the production of automobiles in Germany can therefore very significantly affect the Czech automotive industry, and Czechia’s entire economy as well. In 2019, according to figures from the Czech Statistical Office (CZSO), 24.9% of the entire value of motor vehicles for personal transport (SITC 7812) exported by Czechia was delivered to Germany. Spain followed far behind, taking only 9.7% of Czechia’s car export value. As for parts and accessories for motor vehicles (SITC 784), exports to Germany were 40.8% of the total value of Czechia’s exports of such goods, followed by Slovakia, which took 9.7%. Data on production, exports and registrations is given here only for passenger cars, which are the backbone of the automotive sectors of the two economies we have chosen for study.

3. Problem Solution

3.1 Assessment of the Sources of Information on the Automotive Industry

3.1.1 Czechia Based on long experience, the Automotive Industry Association (AIA) (Bohdan Wojnar, President of the AIA, stated in the publication Panorama of the Manufacturing Industry 2018 that the automotive industry was then producing nearly a tenth of

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