2nd ICAI 2022

International Conference on Automotive Industry 2022

Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic

change that the computer, electronic and optical products contribution moved from Germany to China over time.

Table 1: Main backword links by country-industry, direct (in the sequence of 2014 values)

Source: own calculation and elaboration by UIBE 3.2 Interviews

Our company interviews could supplement well the results of the data analysis. The interviews reinforced the large differences between the use of local suppliers in the two automotive industries. Indeed, in Hungary, the interviewed OEMs and experts indicated very low local value added by local firms in the case of the two German carmakers. However, the Japanese Suzuki deploys a relatively extensive network of local suppliers, consisting of 239 Tier-1 suppliers, of which 27 firms are locally owned. The reason for the difference between the German and Japanese carmakers is that it had to reach 50% local content in order to be able to export free of tariffs its products to the rest of the European Union. For German OEMs, this EU-content by definition is there without local, Hungarian suppliers. They basically do not have any Hungarian-owned

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