Welcome

on East Filters

Looking for auto parts? Please click below.

Our products

Racor Fuel filter/Water Separator

Oil water separator parts

Sakura Filters Equivalent

Fuel filter accessory

Top Searches

Oil filter

Fuel filter

Air filter

Oil water separator

Fuel water separator

Racor

Volvo

Caterpillar

Benz

Perkins

Scania

Komatsu

MAN

HINO

Iveco

TOYOTA

Contact-us

Sales Address: Zhangjiang High-technology Park, Shanghai, China
Tel: 0086-21-3637-6177
Fax: 0086-21-3637-6177
MSN: [email protected]
Skype:eastfilters
Email: [email protected]

China's auto imports double - but not from US

If you think America is too addicted to foreign cars, consider China.
Despite a wide choice of Chinese-made cars, China's imports of foreign cars nearly doubled last year. That's the good news for the U.S. The bad news? Most of the imports were Japanese and German models, the Associated Press reports. Of course, the import list doesn't take into account foreign makers that have set up shop making cars in China like the General Motors SUV pictured at top.

The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers said car imports jumped 93% last year from 2009 to 813,600 vehicles. By value, imports doubled to $30.64 billion, while China's vehicle exports rose 40% from a year earlier to a record $51.8 billion.

AP says an explosion in demand and sluggish sales in the recession-stricken West helped China overtake the U.S. as the largest car market by sales of new vehicles in 2009. Plus, the Chinese prize some foreign cars, especially the luxury German products, as signs of success.

Imported SUVs were in biggest demand. They were up 69% from 2009.