The super challenges of the automobile industry in the new year

Khodrocar - In 1401, the Ministry of Industry made several decisions in the automobile sector, so that since May of last year, the whispers of the supply of automobiles in the stock market and the removal of mandatory pricing based on the plan to organize the automobile industry, which was approved by the Islamic Council, were put forward and implemented. It started. Therefore, with the official launch of the car market, the Competition Council started the cycle of target pricing and discovering the price based on the field and demand. 

This process made the car manufacturers out of losses to some extent and the middlemen were also removed from the car market, but due to the violations, the implementation of this legal clause was suspended in the last months of the year and was half-implemented.

Among the other important automotive decisions last year was the liberalization of car imports and planning for the entry of 90,000 passenger cars into the country. The executive mechanism of this decision, which was supposed to be announced in May of last year, after a lot of tension and going back and forth between the government and the parliament, finally in the first days of Shahrivar, the council of ministers approved the car import resolution, and finally in November In 1401, this resolution was announced with amendments. 

It was clear that there would not be enough time to announce this resolution in the 4 months remaining until the end of the year, despite the fact that the tariff and commercial profit for car imports had not yet been determined, and all aspects of this resolution were unclear. With all these obstacles, a company managed to import 22 cars from 6 Kia products to the country in the first month of winter. Definitely, this number of devices was imported only for the purpose of prototyping. Various comments, numerous decisions and finally the announcement of the pre-sale of imported cars with the amount of 500 million Tomans without announcing the delivery time and also the model of the cars was the fate of the approval of the import of passenger cars last year.

Although there have been many criticisms of this decision, 120,000 people registered in the system announced by the Ministry of Industry for this purpose, to show that the car buying fever is still high and this consumer product should be considered with these other decisions. Considered a capital good.

Among other news shocks of last year was the decision of imported used cars in the 1402 budget bill. Therefore, it was decided that companies should be allowed to import cars with 5 years of operation with the aim of regulating the car market. Undoubtedly, the consequences of this decision were also great, because on the one hand, the companies were not able to provide after-sales services for these cars, and the challenge of the lack of parts was created, and on the other hand, the import mechanism was also unknown, however, it was included in the budget bill. 

But in the first days of the new year, it was announced that the import of these cars has been canceled and removed from the bill. Therefore, we have to see where the fate of imported cars will be in the new year, because it seems that there is no serious will to fulfill this legal clause, and it is only mentioned in statistics in terms of planning for imports.

The advance sale of domestic cars with an advance payment of 100 million tomans was also one of the other automotive decisions of the Ministry of Industry in the last days of the year, which was referred to as the big advance sale. Currently, due to the website's problems, the registrations have been extended, but the Minister of Industry has emphasized in his latest statement this year that all registrants will receive the car, although the mechanism for receiving the car has not been announced and it is not clear that this delivery will be with There will be a lottery method or another method, but according to Omid Qalibaf, the spokesperson of the Ministry of Industry, the priority of car delivery will not be related to the registration time.

These registrations were made while this year's production plan is 1 million and 800 thousand units, and with the existing inflation, the stoppage of car sales in the stock market, and also the lack of determination of new car prices, its realization is uncertain, but still, the number of registrations The participants of this plan have crossed the border of 600,000 people, which has created a big commitment for car manufacturers.

Pricing should be considered the next super challenge of the automobile industry in the new year. The Competition Council had announced that it would announce the new prices by the end of April. At the same time, the speculations indicate an increase in the price of cars by more than 30 to 70%, but it is emphasized that in some cars this number is less than 30% and in some cars it is more than 70%, so the average price increase will be this amount.

Certainly, this increase will create new turbulences in the market and become a new indicator for inflation this year. Therefore, we have to wait and see what this council has dreamed for this industry after a year of weak presence in the automobile industry.