The needs of the automotive industry in the new year
In the past year, the automobile industry experienced different conditions. On the one hand, the opening of import doors increased the hope for the diversity of the market's product portfolio, and on the other hand, planning for more regular production resulted in an increase in production circulation. But all these events will undoubtedly happen in a different way in the new year.
Khodrocar - Last year, more than 1,338,000 vehicles were produced in the country, of which only 306,000 vehicles were produced in private automobile companies.
Of this amount, 1 million and 132 thousand units were allocated to the production of passenger cars, which experienced a growth of 6% compared to the production of 1 million and 71 thousand units last year. At the same time, the targeting of car production last year indicates a plan to produce 1,600,000 cars, and although the production statistics indicate that this plan has not been fully realized, the policy maker is certain that at least 20% growth will be achieved this year. will predict that due to the predictable inflation this year, it will be difficult to realize it unless the prerequisites for price liberalization are in the context of the production sector, along with the facilitation of production.
On the other side of this industry is import, which will undoubtedly experience many new ups and downs this year.
Fulfilling the obligations created and delivering the imported cars, some of which are left over from last year, along with the new obligations created, will undoubtedly result in the need to import more cars.
Last year, many importing companies introduced new products, whose import work and sales plan have been assigned to this year, which is expected to increase diversity in the imported car market, although with recent comments in the last days The year that there is no need to allocate foreign currency to imported cars raised concerns about the unknown fate of this category of cars, but Dawood Manzoor, head of the Program and Budget Organization, in his latest statements, referring to the existing law on car imports, stated that the government In this regard, it has acted according to the law and the matter of order registration and supply of car currency for import is being done according to the government's approval.
According to him, the report of the imported cars and the cars that are in the import stage at the customs, or their orders and the supply of foreign currency can be submitted by the Ministry of Security.
In addition to these issues, the sudden and upward growth of cars overnight due to political news cannot be ignored. The fate of the car price was there before, and with the beginning of the current trend, it became a new concern in this industry.
Undoubtedly, with the continuation of the growing trend of inflationary expectations and currency prices, the growth of car prices in the market will be inevitable, and although production and supply conditions can affect the rate of price growth and make it decrease or increase, but a look at the past shows that The price of the currency and its curve has always been the biggest factor affecting the price of the car.
Determining the factory price of cars is one of the main necessities of this industry this year. Therefore, if the policymaker seeks to increase production and supply, the increase in the factory price of cars is inevitable, while car manufacturers are now claiming that the sale of their products is far behind the cost of production, and while the Ministry of Industry is looking to eliminate mandatory pricing, there is a possibility of price correction more than before.
Now we have to see what kind of policy the policy maker will take in this productive industry with the start of the new year and seeing the increasing inflation in the early days of the year which was caused by the recent political events.