4.6% decline in car production in Britain

Media IN / Agencies / 21 December 2017

The British Association of Automobile Manufacturers and Dealers revealed Thursday that British car production fell last November on the back of weak domestic demand.
The decline in car production last month was 4.6% annually, with local market production falling by 1.28%, while export production increased 3.1% annually. Mike Huiz, chief executive of the Association of Automotive Producers and Manufacturers, said the uncertainty surrounding Britain’s exit from the European Union and taxes on diesel-powered cars, as well as air pollution control plans, were detrimental to domestic demand for new cars in Britain. And therefore on domestic production.
She added that the increase in exports during the last month confirmed the strong role played by foreign markets for the British car industry. In the first 11 months of this year, Britain’s car production fell 2% to 57.1 million