China Regulates Automobile/Motorcycle Export Order

 
Recently, five Chinese administrations, including the Ministry Of Commerce, have jointly issued a Notice on regulating the order of automobile and motorcycle exports from China.

The Notice calls for export qualification over the auto/motorcycle manufacturers and for classified manufacturers' authorization over relevant export operators.

As per the Notice:

The manufacturers must have repair and service capability adapting to their export quantity; their export qualification will be revoked once their products are found at abroad inferior in quality and adverse to Chinese export;

The enterprises making autos, motorcycles and low-speed vehicles are required to obtain valid China Compulsory Certification (CCC) and to be listed in the Announcement On Vehicle Manufacturers & Products issued by the Ministry Of Industry & Information Technology;

The manufacturers applying for export qualification are divided into five classes, with Class 1 and Class 4 permitted to authorize export enterprises; those without after-sale service offices abroad are listed into Class 5 that is only permitted to operate export on their own from 2014.

Reportedly, since 2011, despite its slowing domestic auto market, China has seen an increasing auto export volume at the rate of over 40%. It is estimated that there will be one million autos exported this year.

However, compared with giant GM, Volkswagen, Toyota, etc., Chinese-branded autos make up as small as 5% of the total export volume; and they are expected to gain a big growth in the future.