Comparing production to sales between the U.S. and Japan
- The United States have been characterized for a long time by a production volume very different to registration volumes, registrations are still well above the production, which means that import volumes are much higher than exports which remain low (in recent years, registrations have been about 50% higher that production levels).
- This significant difference between production and registration is all the more spectacular as it takes into account the development of Korean and Japanese transplants in the United States, which means that the demand for models from Japan, Korea, but also from in Europe remains strong.
- Japan is a country that is much like the United States in terms of proportion of exports / imports, but reversed. Indeed, the volume of production is much higher than that of registrations ( production has been about 80% higher than registrations in the course of the last few years).
- Indeed Japan exports a lot more vehicles than it imports (especially to the United States). These exports add to Japanese transplants already established on other continents. Korea also has this feature, indeed it exports much more vehicles than it imports.
