Article: Chains of added value in the automobile industry

by Serge CATOIRE

Chief engineer from the École des Mines, Conseil général de l’Économie, de l’Industrie, de l’Énergie et des Technologies (CGEIET), Ministry of the Economy, of Economic Recovery and of the Digital Economy

Abstract

For twenty years now, the French automobile industry has been adapting to a rapidly evolving globalized market and international competition. Its strategy has led to reducing automakers’ national footprint in line with trends in the worldwide production and sale of motor vehicles. Evidence of this adaptation is not only the closing of assembly plants but also the decreasing added value produced by the automobile industry in France.