Auto Warehousing Co., a vehicle processing firm that ships vehicle out of a port in Portland, Oregon, revealed this week that Ford is planning to boost exports of its North American-made Explorer and Edge SUVs to China by about 40,000 units. The Explorer is built at Ford’s Chicago Assembly Plant and the Edge is made in Oakville, Ontario.
“The vast majority of the vehicles we sell in China are built in China,” Ford said in an emailed statement to The Detroit News. “As part of our plan to offer a full family of SUVs to Chinese consumers, we began importing the Ford Explorer from the U.S. to China this year. Explorer joins our locally produced EcoSport and Kuga, as well as Edge, which is imported from Canada.”
Ford exported just 16,405 vehicles from all countries to China during the first nine months of 2013.
The decision to boost exports from the United States is likely tied to capacity restraints in China. So far this year Ford has delivered 647,849 vehicles in China, marking an improvement of 51 percent over the same period in 2012.
Ford will continue to boost exports to China next year as it rolls out its Lincoln luxury brand to the world’s largest auto market. The first Lincolns sold in China will be built in the U.S., although Ford is expected to eventually shift to local production.
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