Hand-In-Hand 2008
2008 Foreword Promoting the Sound Development of the ASEAN Automotive Industry The history of steadily expanding cooperative The past several years have seen the motor ties between member companies of the Japan industries in ASEAN neighboring countries Automobile Manufacturers Association (JAMA) increasing their competitive strength, which and their ASEAN partners is now close to half a underscores the urgency of greater global century old. competitiveness for ASEAN's automotive sector. With this goal in mind, there are high hopes that Those years were marked by some difficult ASEAN will further promote regional integration times―the Asian economic crisis of 1997, for at the earliest possible time. example―but throughout, JAMA members remained firmly committed to ASEAN, ASEAN is making bold moves to surmount the consistently striving, through automobile hurdles on the path to greater growth. Such production, sales, and exports, to advance moves include the abolition of regional tariffs, investment, create jobs, and transfer technology. harmonization of automotive technical This booklet outlines the more recent activities of regulations, mutual recognition of certification, JAMA and its member companies in the ASEAN the streamlining of customs procedures and region. distribution systems, the fostering of supporting industries and human resources, the promotion In 2007, new vehicle sales in the ASEAN market of safety, greater environmental protection, and (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, other strategies aimed at promoting
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