Moroccan industry in the covid-19 era : the case of the automotive sector[L'industrie marocaine à l'ère du Covid-19 : cas du secteur automobile]

The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic continues to destabilize Moroccan industry. Indeed, all branches of the industrial sector are affected. The world situation requires all countries to struggle to preserve both the health of their citizens and the viability of the economic system. The automotive sector, one of the pillars of the economy, is confronted with shocks at all levels of its industrial chain. This paper aims to contextualize the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Morocco's industrial sectors and to identify the implications of this crisis for the automotive sector ; any decline in its activity will have a strong impact on the balance of trade. Second, given the high level of uncertainty around the pandemic and the unique character of the current crisis, the forecast and simulation exercise seems very important to understand the repercussions of this crisis on the economic aggregates of the automotive sector.