Record Breaking Automotive Exports
With this success, the sector eclipsed last year’s total exports of US$4.8 billion, not to mention the US$3,2 billion in exports for the same nine-month period.
According to Uludag Exporters Unions (UIB) data, by-product industries are among the export items that have increased in the first nine months of the year. In fact, they are first in terms of advances with US$1,748,148,000 in exports.
Automobiles came next with US$1,487,877,000 in exports and commercial vehicles followed with US$813,850,000.
While military tanks, armoured vehicles, and other heavy machinery saw their exports increase; only the aerospace sector registered a decrease in exports.