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After 20 years, China’s auto sales sputter into reverse

By Bloomberg
11 January 2019   |   8:36 am
The growth engine for the world’s car industry has been thrown into reverse. China recorded its first yearly fall in auto sales in more than two decades, the victim of slowing GDP growth and the U.S.-China trade war.

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