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Is there any such thing as a national car brand?

Ruth Tarrant

28th January 2016

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Yesterday,the BBC posed the question "What makes a car German, American or Japanese? Is it where it is designed, where the parts are manufactured, or where those parts are assembled? Or is it where the brand owner is based?"

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Ruth Tarrant

Ruth has been Subject Lead in Economics at tutor2u for many years after a career of teaching Economics, Business, Politics and Maths in a range of secondary schools. She is a highly experienced A level Economics Examiner, and also teaches undergraduate Economics on a very part-time basis at the University of Oxford. Ruth is passionate about making economics fun, engaging and accessible.

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