27-05-2021 08:00
Amid a rise in car consumption, a wide range of giant automakers have had to cut production or close facilities due to the global semiconductor shortage that is affecting price and delivery times.
29-12-2020 11:26
The temporary 50 per cent cut in registration fees for locally-made cars starting from June 2020, which aimed to encourage domestic production through the global health crisis, may not extend into 2021, thus carmakers are hoping for new benefits in order to build on recent sales momentum.
20-03-2020 13:00
Vietnam is striving to successfully build up its automobile industry. Vu Tan Cong, deputy general director of Vietnam Automobile Industry and Trade Consulting Co., Ltd., writes about how to develop materials, which are the key for the industry to take off.
04-11-2019 15:30
After some "very good conversations" with automakers in the European Union, Japan and elsewhere, the United States may not need to impose new tariffs on imported automobiles, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Sunday.
14-03-2019 12:00
The Government will provide policy support for automakers, but not at the cost of breaking its international integration commitments, Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc has said.
25-10-2018 17:07
The Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) wants to take advantage of market and policy opportunities to promote automobile manufacturing projects of domestic automakers including Truong Hai Auto Corporation (Thaco), Thanh Cong Group and VinFast.
09-08-2018 15:24
Japan's Suzuki Motor, Mazda and Yamaha have admitted using false emissions data for some vehicles, the transport ministry said on Thursday (Aug 9), in the latest product quality scandal to hit the country's auto sector.
28-06-2018 10:00
Major foreign-invested automakers are eyeing expansions of their production sites in Vietnam, which belies the assumption that they would turn their full attention to imports after tariffs levied on vehicles made in ASEAN are abolished this year.
23-05-2018 09:46
Auto businesses are concerned about Vietnam’s future policy orientation with regard to the auto industry, which they think will affect their business strategy.
11-05-2018 11:00
After Ford, US automakers General Motors and Fiat-Chrysler said Thursday they were cutting vehicle production following a factory fire at a major parts supplier last week.
24-04-2018 17:02
While foreign-invested manufacturers have shifted to importing cars for domestic sale, Vietnamese enterprises have increased investments and expanded production, vowing to develop a domestic automobile industry.
18-04-2018 17:24
Shares in top Chinese manufacturing companies plunged on Wednesday (Apr 18) after Beijing announced plans to phase out ownership limits for foreign automakers, shipbuilders and aircraft firms.
09-08-2017 10:00
Vietnamese automakers and importers have been racing to reduce the price of many models in recent months ahead of the zero-tariff policy for car imports from ASEAN nations that goes into effect on January 1, 2018.
10-07-2017 10:19
Automaker BMW can access its batch of cars being held at HCM City’s port for maintenance but the firm must replace its local dealer Euro Auto due to violations of the country’s regulations, said Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc at a conference with German businesses in Berlin on Thursday.
03-07-2017 15:23
Domestic automakers must manufacture autos under the Vietnamese brand name, Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung suggested.