Cases of the Federation of Industry and Commerce: Breaking the monopoly of auto parts supply

Since the advent of the two sessions, the National Federation of Industry and Commerce recently proposed a proposal to break the monopoly of auto parts supply and promote the healthy development of the auto repair market . The details are as follows:

Proposed contractor: Ministry of Commerce

At present, there are two service systems in China's automotive aftermarket, namely the 4S shop authorized by automobile manufacturers and the comprehensive social maintenance service system. As 4S shops charge high fees, their services are mainly for high-end cars and new cars during the maintenance period. The majority of mid- and low-end vehicles that account for the majority of car ownership have spent the maintenance period, most of them will choose to go to the comprehensive social maintenance service system for vehicles. The maintenance and maintenance. Taking Beijing as an example, there are currently more than 500 4S stores, and the total social maintenance system is as high as more than 20,000 (including the first, second, and third types of vehicle maintenance companies, automobile maintenance companies, and auto parts dealers), and the latter is in terms of vehicle maintenance and maintenance. Play an indispensable and important role.

However, the comprehensive social maintenance service system has caused serious business crisis due to the monopoly of maintenance technology, parts supply channels and accessories standards by auto manufacturers, which has led to the downturn of the overall auto parts industry. The reason is that there is a supply monopoly in the automotive aftermarket. The 4S shop is a unique franchise channel for the automotive market. When the automakers approved the 4S store to join, it was stipulated that they would not be allowed to buy their own parts, nor would they be allowed to take delivery of spare parts from the original factory. At the same time, automobile manufacturers and parts manufacturers will also have agreements that do not allow it to provide third-party third parties other than automobile production companies with auto parts for the company, and limit the number of parts produced or sales. There is a serious imbalance between the huge demand for car aftermarket and the limited supply of car manufacturers. This leads to

The following three consequences:

The first is that car manufacturers are making huge profits and consumer interests are being hurt.

The exclusive monopoly of 4S stores will inevitably generate high profits. According to the investigation of automobile tires by the All-China Federation of Automobile Manufacturers and Auto Parts Association, the sales price of the same quality and standard automobile tires in the 4S shop and the auto parts market is far different. This monopoly of accessories brings high costs to consumers. In less developed regions with a small number of 4S shops, consumers are more expensive to maintain and maintain vehicles.

The second is counterfeiting.

In fact, the auto manufacturers’ maintenance of the maintenance technology and product standards makes it impossible for an accessory manufacturing company that has not signed an agreement to produce and sell the same quality accessories. Some companies have only to “improve” by the temptation of huge market demand. In order to ensure the operating rate and maintain the production capacity, some of the accessories manufacturing companies that have signed agreements with them had to “sneak in” the products produced outside the order.

The third is seriously impeding the technological innovation in the auto parts industry and affecting the development of the national industry.

As automakers use industry monopoly status and binding agreements to drive down suppliers' prices, the profits of suppliers of parts and components, especially non-core parts, and the related circulation and sales companies are very low. These companies are at the low end of the industry chain. Many enterprises belong to labor-intensive enterprises, and the pressure for survival is greater. Automobile manufacturers' technology information and suppliers are rarely shared, and it is difficult to talk about technological breakthroughs and innovations. Among the joint-venture automobile manufacturing enterprises, key components such as engines, transmissions, and chassis systems are involved. The technology is mainly controlled by foreign parties and is basically not open to the Chinese side. The technical innovation and brand building of the national spare parts are difficult.

To sum up, only by breaking the supply monopoly of automobile manufacturers, opening up distribution channels, and opening up maintenance technology and product standards to the integrated maintenance body of auto parts can significantly reduce the cost of auto maintenance and repair, and effectively eliminate the existence of auto parts market. The phenomenon of counterfeiting and accelerating the acceleration of the development of the automotive industry as a national economy.

Suggestions for this:

1. The relevant government departments have issued relevant policies that require auto manufacturers to provide spare parts and technical information to independent maintenance companies, allowing original parts to be sold at the same time in 4S stores and auto parts markets. In order to protect the relationship of equal cooperation between enterprises of different scales, promote healthy competition in the auto parts market, do not give opportunities for counterfeit products, protect consumer interests and public life safety, and promote the healthy development of the auto parts industry.

2. Amend the content of the "Automobile Brand Sales Management Approach" that contradicts the "PRC Anti-Monopoly Law." This can learn from the experience of the European Union. The European Commission issued a new regulation for motor vehicle service on May 27, 2010, explicitly phasing out the binding agreement between automakers and authorized maintenance companies. This means that for car maintenance and repair, consumers can choose to go to 4S stores or other maintenance companies on the premise that they can obtain the same service quality, thus promoting the formation of a fair market environment.