Australian Automotive Industry Essay

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Automotive manufacturing industry is the largest employment source and biggest output provider in Australia. The share of total contribution of this industry in Australian economy and employment has declined through last decades. In 2011, government has introduced different scheme including the Automotive Competitiveness and Investment Scheme (ACIS) converting the assistance in other forms such as subsidies, tax concessions and 'one-off' payments. Despite the huge assistance the industry is losing competitiveness in the global market. This essay will be identifying the grounds against the contemporary debates about the declining trend of Australian automotive industry. At the end it will also provide some recommendations for the government to salvage this business.

One of the principal reasons for which Australian car manufacturing industries are struggling to compete globally is the high labour costs in Australia compare to other car manufacturing country. The most promising countries in the car manufacturing sector are China, India and Korea have a very low labour cost (one fourth of the labour cost in Australia), which is reflected on the car price. Since people are getting same model of the car with comparatively cheap price, …show more content…

The impact of FTAs with other countries is that the countries with FTAs can sale their manufactured car with a cheaper price than what the Australian industries can offer (Kohler, 2013). Australian government has recently devised a plan of negotiating FTA with China, the car manufacturing giant in the world. Australian car industry will be ruined immediately after making FTAs with China, Japan, Korea and India as they will definitely increase the sales in Australia with the promotion of five percent price cut (Kohler,

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