According to statistics of China Customs, domestic domestic air conditioners exported 42.671 million units in 2017, an increase of 9.8% over the same period of last year, of which 1.68 million units were for domestic use in the domestic air-conditioners in October, a decrease of 4.2% over the same period of 2014. Looking at the domestic air-conditioning exports in the first 10 months of 2017 , Except for a slight decline in April and October, the rest of the month showed a growth trend.
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In terms of market, the export of household air conditioners in North America, Oceania and Latin America showed a growth trend in October 2017, up by 2.7%, 32.4% and 27.2% respectively over the same period of last year; while exports to Africa, Europe and Asia were in a downward trend, down 2.1% , 32.0% and 20.9% respectively. Australia's market for air conditioners is relatively mature with relatively stable market capacity. Australia, the major importer of home air conditioners in Oceania, grew 43.7% YoY in October. Australia benefited from the housing boom in the country, boosting housing construction and prosperity Support, coupled with the global temperature rise, the future size of the air conditioner market in Oceania will increase, but limited by the impact of expensive electricity growth growth since August, the main air-conditioning importing country Brazil back to Latin America to import the first Chinese household air conditioners Brazil's economy experienced a contraction of two consecutive years and the economy started to pick up gradually in 2017. In addition, due to the unusual weather, Brazil suffered the hottest spring in nearly a decade this year, thus driving up the consumption of air-conditioners.
Africa posted a mild year-on-year decline this year, of which Algeria is the largest importer of household air-conditioners in China, up more than 1000% year-on-year. Algeria is located in North Africa. Although it is the off-season import season for North Africa in the second half of the year, Algeria will complete its energy efficiency switchover by the end of 2017 , A few months before the export of household air conditioners reduced, gathered in October had a greater growth, and the current shipping are basically new energy efficiency models.Russian, Spain and Turkey in Europe before the import of household air conditioners in China Three, Russia Due to the summer temperature is not high, resulting in large local air-conditioning inventory, exports of home air-conditioners in Russia in the past three months began a sharp decline in Spain and Turkey have different rates of growth.
In terms of exporters, some brands achieved growth in October, with Midea and Gree still tops in the top two, with the United States up 19.9% YoY and Gree after a slight decline this month after a 88.9% YoY growth. Among the exporters, Changhong has the most eye-catching growth since 2018, and 620.0% this month after the 580.1% growth last month. In addition, TCL, Panasonic and Daikin also saw different increases this month .