MEXICO CITY, Oct 3 (Reuters) - Mexico's national statistics agency INEGI said on Wednesday it will start tallying domestic auto production, exports and sales data in October, taking over the job of reporting the monthly figures from the auto industry association AMIA.
The statistics agency will publish "monthly sales, production and export data of new vehicle units by company, without specifying monetary values, and the number of vehicles of each of the brands and models that are produced and/or marketed in Mexico," INEGI and AMIA said in a joint statement.
In total, 2,617,330 autos were produced in Latin America's No. 2 economy in the first eight months of the year, a rise of just 0.1 percent from the same period in 2017.
U.S. carmakers General Motors Co (NYSE:GM) GM.N , Ford Motor (NYSE:F) Co F.N , and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles FCHA.MI ; Germany's Volkswagen AG VOWG_p.DE ; and Japan's Toyota Motor Corp 7203.T , Nissan Motor Co 7201.T and Honda Motor co 7267.T all build autos in Mexico.