14 May 2025 
- China exported 507,000 vehicles in March 2025, up 1% year-on-year. In the first quarter of 2025, vehicle exports reached 1.42 million units, up 7.3% year-on-year. At the current pace, China could export between 5.7 and 6.0 million vehicles in 2025, setting a new record and cementing its position as the world's leading automobile exporter, ahead of Japan and Europe.
- Among these 507 000 vehicles, 411 000 were passenger cars and 96 000 were utility vehicles (1,2 million PCs and 240 000 UVs in Q1-2025)
- In total, China will export between 18% and 20% of its automotive production this year, primarily to Europe and Russia. These exports include models from non-Chinese carmakers produced in China.
- Among the top ten vehicle exporters in March 2025:
• Chery Group led the way with 86,000 units shipped, up 2.8% year-on-year, and accounting for 17.1% of China's total exports. From January to March 2025, Chery exported 254,000 vehicles, an annual rate of one million vehicles.
• BYD Group recorded the fastest growth, exporting 73,000 vehicles, up 88.4% year-on-year.
• MG (SAIC) is the third largest exporter, delivering its vehicles (72,000 vehicles) mainly to Europe 30 countries (EU + UK + Switzerland + Norway) while Chery delivers mainly to Russia.
• Next come Changan (50,000 vehicles), Geely (43,000 vehicles) and Great Wall (32,000 vehicles).
• The other carmakers each delivered less than 30,000 vehicles.
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- According to Inovev's calculations, the 30 european country (EU + United Kingdom + Switzerland + Norway) imported 210,000 new vehicles from the United States in 2023 and 205,000 in 2024. These imports have therefore remained stable over the past few years. It is to note that these figures relate to USA only and do not include imports from Mexico and Canada.
- The largest quantities of these vehicles imported from the United States come from German premium brands, such as BMW (142,000 units) and Mercedes (46,000 units), which import a large number of locally produced SUVs. These two brands alone account for more than 90% of imports from the United States, or 188,000 units in 2024.
- Volvo imports some 5,000 cars from the United States, ahead of Jeep (4,300 cars), Tesla (3,300 units), whose Model 3s come from China and Model Ys from Germany, Ford (3,000 units) and GM (1,000 units).
- Trump administration says being surprised that vehicles produced in the United States are not selling or are selling very little in Europe. But the large SUVs and large pickup trucks produced in this country are totally unsuited to European demand. The pickup market, for example, represents only 82,000 sales in Europe in 2024 compared to 85,000 in 2023, and these are mid-range pickups, less imposing than the Ford F-Series or Chevrolet Silverado. As for GM and Ford sedans that could have interested customers in Europe, they have completely disappeared from the manufacturing program in the United States. Even the American brands dedicated to the European market (Chrysler France, Chrysler UK, Opel, Vauxhall) have been sold to a European carmaker. For its part, Ford-Europe has decided to eliminate all its sedans (Ka, Fiesta, Focus, Mondeo) following the example of what happened in the United States. Stellantis imports virtually nothing from the United States, and Tesla will soon no longer import any cars from that country. As for Japanese carmakers, they prefer to import their cars from Japan rather than the United States.
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