China News

• London Taxi's famed black cabs made in China   [Sep 05, 2008]

  London Taxis are as British as bowler hats and Big Ben. But the latest models coming off this new assembly line are unlikely to ever touch an English road.At a sprawling Fengjing factory in the lush ...

• Expert: Car sales tax hike likely to affect imports   [Sep 03, 2008]

  Monday saw car-owners paying different levies based on the size of their vehicles. It's a move China is taking to save energy and cut pollution. There has already been some response from sellers. But ...

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  China slowdown fuels tougher race for carmakers   [Sep 01, 2008]

  A sudden slowdown in car sales in China and India is threatening to shrink the global auto market this year, promising tougher times for an industry leaning on the two most populous countries to pick ...

• Chinese vehicles' drive to America revs up   [Aug 29, 2008]

  GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) -- Chinese automakers have been trying to get their vehicles to the United States market for several years. They have been exhibiting at the North American International ...

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  Fiat determined to recover in China market   [Aug 27, 2008]

  Shanghai, August 27 (Gasgoo.com) Italian carmaker Fiat Auto has recently signed an agreement with China's Guangzhou Auto Group for technical cooperation. Meanwhile, Fiat Group has decided to invest ...
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  China's small cars need more than tax cut   [Aug 25, 2008]

  CHINA has announced plans to raise sales tax on big cars and cut rates on small vehicles from September, using a carrot-and-stick approach to help save energy and ease environment concerns.However, ...

• China to cut car imports without offending the WTO   [Aug 22, 2008]

  LESS than a month after losing its first legal dispute with the World Trade Organization (WTO), China has introduced a new tax that will achieve much of what it originally wanted, only by another ...

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  Economic slowdown is not totally bad for auto market   [Aug 20, 2008]

  Shanghai, August 20 (Gasgoo.com) China's auto market has seen a continuous slide since March this year and some people say that auto sales in the Chinese market have entered a "premature winter." ...

• Car-makers steer path through challenging H2   [Aug 19, 2008]

  Second-half auto sales are likely to grow -- but more slowly than in the past, because of challenging domestic and foreign conditions, China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) deputy ...

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  China's small car tax incentives to have limited effect   [Aug 16, 2008]

  "Support low-emission vehicles and restrain high-emission vehicles" is apparently the goal of the latest automobile sales tax adjustment. Its real influence on China's car market, however, remains to ...

• Green tax on big cars to affect new rich in China   [Aug 14, 2008]

  Buying big cars in China will cost more after September 1 when the government will up the vehicle excise tax by up to 40% to discourage fuel consumption and carbon dioxide emmission. The tax raise ...

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  Japanese cars sell more in China than German cars   [Aug 13, 2008]

  Shanghai, August 13 (Gasgoo.com) In July, there were 278,000 sedans of foreign brands sold in China, accounting 77.16% of the total sales of sedans in the country that month. Of these foreign-brand ...