- Europe (29 countries) is a region characterized by production volume very close to the number of registrations, which means that export volumes fully offset import volumes (about 2.5 million units a year, over the past two years).

- This is slightly less true since the crisis of 2008-2009 when we observed that production volume became slightly higher than the number of registrations This is due mainly to Japanese and Korean transplants that have developed on the European continent in the 2000s, gradually replacing imports from Japan or Korea.

- China is a country that is very similar to Europe in terms of proportion of exports / imports. Indeed, the volume of exports is almost equivalent to that of imports (about 1 million units per year over the last two years).

- China exports vehicles in two different ways: either complete vehicles directly to foreign markets, or spare parts (CKD kits) to be assembled in dedicated plants, often owned by independent foreign manufacturers.