Morocco now spends more on auto parts than on imported cars

Morocco imported 24.591 billion dirhams’ worth of parts and components intended for passenger cars between January and July 2026. Over the same period, passenger car imports amounted to 23.161 billion dirhams, according to the latest monthly indicators from the Foreign Exchange Office.

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The gap thus reached 1.430 billion dirhams in favor of auto parts. These two categories alone accounted for nearly 47.8 billion dirhams in imports during the first seven months of the year.

The increase was significantly faster on the auto-parts side. Their value rose by 4.870 billion dirhams compared with the first seven months of 2025, an increase of 24.7%. Passenger car imports, for their part, rose by 2.259 billion dirhams, or 10.8%.

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This development is contributing to the overall increase in Morocco’s imports of finished consumer goods. They reached 129.873 billion dirhams at the end of July, compared with 115.621 billion one year earlier, an increase of 12.3%. The Foreign Exchange Office attributes this growth in particular to purchases of auto parts and passenger cars.

Commercial vehicles also recorded a sharp increase, but they are classified in another foreign-trade category, that of finished capital goods. Morocco imported 7.203 billion dirhams’ worth of them during the first seven months of 2026, compared with 4.463 billion one year earlier, an increase of 61.4%.

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Overall, Morocco’s imports of goods reached 544.045 billion dirhams at the end of July 2026, up 15.9% year on year. Exports increased less rapidly, by 8.4%, to 299.349 billion dirhams. The trade deficit thus widened by 26.5%, to 244.696 billion dirhams.