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The prosperity of the united kingdom motor industry could possibly be "jeopardised" if UK actually leaves the single marketplace following Brexit, a senior industry figure states.

The main executive of the Society of Motor brands and Traders (SMMT) informed the BBC the industry would-be under menace outside the single market.

Mike Hawes told BBC business editor Simon Jack that the business's success originated in being into the solitary marketplace.

Europe is the UNITED KINGDOM engine business's biggest export marketplace.

He said: "Don't be blinded by the great you are seeing not just around our sector but around company as a whole. We are extremely worried that future condition for the automotive industry and also the success might be jeopardised if we're perhaps not within the single market."

Evaluation: Simon Jack, BBC company editor

Great britain vehicle business kicked down unique Tour de France today within the shadow of Eiffel Tower in the sidelines of Paris Motor Show.

Vauxhall, Nissan, Jaguar, Aston Martin, Mini, Toyota and McLaren models were lined up alongside one another.

However, this showroom wasn't for offering cars, but also for providing the auto industry's starkest caution however.

It claims only continued membership of the European solitary marketplace can guarantee the prosperity of the UK vehicle business.

The vehicle industry is very responsive to tariffs, as components and finished items can criss-cross across Channel several times. Any additional frictional expense can throw sand within the engine of this company and its own extended offer chains.

Account for the single market ensures tariff-free trade, but comes during the cost of freedom of movement of individuals - an unacceptable outcome for some who voted Leave.

He added that the development of a could be under hazard beyond your single market "because the success we have had additionally the energy of it has-been constructed on being an element of the single market".

The UK's membership of this EU's single market indicates it's free motion of goods, finance and folks across the EU, with no tariffs or other obstacles, also providing it a say on how the EU's principles tend to be written.

Whilst UNITED KINGDOM would still be in a position to export into solitary marketplace user countries regardless if it weren't it self a member, it can need to negotiate trade deals, which may include having to pay tariffs, customs delays and having to abide by EU guidelines, over which it could do not have say.

In the 1st half of the year, 57.3per cent of British car exports, an overall total of 502, 647 automobiles, went along to the EU, followed by the united states, which had 12.1percent of exports.

"It is our biggest export marketplace, " Mr Hawes stated. "we are an export-led business as well as the method in which the parts relocate and away from various nations, it is an extremely complex procedure. Being part of that solitary marketplace not only makes it easy but helps it be affordable."

Their reviews had been copied by Hanno Kirner Executive Director of business and approach at Jaguar Land Rover. "when you look at the worst situation if we had been to present obligations, while we were to have 10% tasks to pay for on components, as an example, that would be something which consumers will have to pay, it can potentially influence tasks, " said Mr Hanno.

"additionally when we export to Europe and turn less competitive perhaps we would sell less, we would have less jobs in the united kingdom. Therefore we are extremely concerned we genuinely believe that maintaining these days's freedom of trade is very crucial that you all of us, " he included.

No guarantees

Mr Hawes has also been expected if their hopes of staying into the single marketplace were impractical amid talk of British government plans to tighten border controls. "the process to the federal government is make certain that business, which produces the tasks by which more and more people depend, has just what it takes because of its future success, and target... issues about immigration, " he said.

European frontrunners have actually over and over repeatedly stressed that the UK cannot stay-in the single market without accepting the no-cost action of EU people.

Mark Garnier, minister during the division for International Trade, is also going to the Paris engine Show. Commenting regarding the SMMT's remarks from the need certainly to stay in the single marketplace, he said: "we cannot guarantee anything, but as I said, we are perhaps not likely to provide a running commentary on which exit will probably appear to be.

"But there are elements which can be inside the SMMT while the automotive industry and even any kind of sector that people want to protect plus the case regarding the automotive industry, those things we ought to protect and attempt to achieve is zero-tariff access to the forex market of 500 million people into the EU, " he added.