Saturday, March 4, 2017

Luxury cars drive British exports to China

2017 Volvo S90 Sedan Excellence (China-built) - outside and inside player



Italy has lost even more ground, falling below the UK in the Chinese market in 2012 Germany is in a league of its own, export almost as much as the rest of the EU combined the second largest economy in the world.
Jaguar Land Rover JLR said China had become the largest market in the last 12 months, aided by a network of 130 dealers growing at a rate of two per month across the country What a year we had said the CEO Ralf Speth has been phenomenal for growth.
JLR is building an assembly plant to run later this year in a joint venture with Chery Automobile, probably for the Range Rover Evoque We are deeply impressed by the speed that you can do something in China, M. Speth said.
Rolls-Royce now has 28pc of its global sales in China, mainly marketing the Ghost model to 400,000 after taxes The group leader of China, Henrik.
Wilhelmsmeyer said 2013 had been an exceptional year there is little evidence yet that the assault of the Communist Party of the ostentatious wealth under President Xi Jinping reduces appetite private buyers.
Julian Callow, global strategist at Barclays, said the British industry had been dug by a pound overvalued in the decade before the financial crisis, business investment began to slide after 1998, from 11 2pc of GDP to a low 7 2PC before stabilizing.



The UK has had to work under an overvalued exchange rate for very long, he said.
The Bank of sterling weighted index of trade in England rose from about 80 in the early 1990s to a peak of 103 in 2007 before falling again after the Northern Rock crisis and the Lehman crash.
It was crawling again, reaching 85 in December 1 While wage increases have eroded some of the effects of the devaluation, proved sterling lower tonic for sensitive sectors manufacturing cost.
France and Italy face the opposite problem The euro was too strong for them, but still too low for Germany Purchases of euro bonds by China, Russia and other emerging powers diversifying their increasing foreign reserve holdings have tended to push up the euro trade weighted index rose 4 5pc during the past year.
The investment policy at the door of Britain pays dividends Volks-wagen Group Germany has Rolls-Royce, while the Tata family in India has JLR They both made a reach and a global vision that combined well with British engineering skills.
The Company automakers and Traders reported total sales of UK vehicles in China rose 17 8pc in the third quarter of the previous year.



The British car industry produced 1 5m vehicles last year and is expected to reach a record 2 million by 2017, more than during the glory days of the 1960s and 1970s, the industry is now almost entirely with foreign capital, but the concept of national ownership has lost much of its meaning in a world of globalized equity portfolios.






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