Stefan Legge

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Legge

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Stefan

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stefan.legge@unisg.ch

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+41 71 224 2338

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Swiss Trade Monitor - 05 - Switzerland's Car Imports

( 2023-07-20)
Stefan Legge
;
Ronny Oberholzer
;
Jason Rosenthal

Swiss imports of cars document two fundamental shifts: location and engine. Fewer cars are bought from Japan or France, more from Spain, the Czech Republic, and (recently) China. Concerning car engines, the data show a growing share of imported cars that are purely electric. China has quickly moved into the top-10 of Switzerland's source countries for cars and is the second-most important supplier of EVs. Germany remains by far the key source country, accounting for almost 40~percent of all Swiss car imports and an even larger share of EV imports. For Switzerland, a nation that has no car industry but a significant group of leading suppliers to the car industry, the developments seen in the import data raise questions about location choices and strategic market positioning.

Type: discussion paper

URI: https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/handle/20.500.14171/117747