Puerto Rico’s retail sales were down 3 percent year-over-year in July — the most recent statistic available for the sector — when some $2.94 billion in activity was reported.
Ford Motor Company’s sales in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands increased in August by 4 percent over last year, led by a successful launch of the new Ford Fiesta, the automaker said recently.
Car sales in Puerto Rico have shown no significant change from month to month so far this year, as figures for the first seven months of the year have not changed significantly from one month to the next, the United Automobile Importers Group (known as GUIA for its initials in Spanish) said.