Thai car market loses sheen but 2018 could top last year

摘要

Thailand’s auto-manufacturing industry haslost the momentum it enjoyed five yearsago but it’s still ticking over adequately,according to new data from the Federationof Thai Industries (FTI). This will be of somerelief to the Japanese steelmakers forwhom Thailand – specifically the Japaneseinvestedcarmakers and their vast networkof parts suppliers – is a crucial buyer ofspecialty and ordinary carbon steel.