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Turkish auto market aims over $32B exports in 2019

Anadolu Agency ECONOMY
Published January 06,2019
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Turkey's automotive industry exports will exceed $32 billion in 2019, head of Uludağ Automotive Industry Exporters' Association (OIB) said.

"As the automotive industry, we are aiming to overcome all difficulties and to close this year with an increase in exports. In this direction, we set our export target in 2019 to be $32 billion," Baran Çelik, the chief executive officer of OIB, said in a statement.

Çelik said that Turkish automotive sector's exports reached $31.6 billion in 2018 with an increase of 11 percent compared to 2017, noting that Turkey left behind another year full of records.

"Last year, we achieved an export average of $2.63 billion on a monthly basis," he added.