It is almost 15 months vehicle import registration and its related marginal issues are making headlines everywhere. Through the period up and down of government’s decisions did not let the imports to settle down.
The order of clearance of remain imported cars in the customs is turning to a hot topic. Although, there are some question about the clearance of the cars due to the shortage of details but most of all car companies, part and after sales service suppliers will suffer from this decision.
During last year, vehicle imports faced many problems like the shutdown of SABTARESH website. However, public officials are still following up the last year’s violations. Unaware that car imports are now banned and there is not enough currency to allocate credit. Now the question is why the government is focusing on the past rather than future?
Car registration is banned until further notice and no vehicle will be imported anymore. The decision that the government believes is order to support the domestic goods. But what are consequences of this action?
The ministry of Industry, Mine and Trade is emphasizing on foreign investment in the auto industry, but on the other hand, making wrong and sudden decisions like shut down SABTARESH website is sending negative signals to foreign investors and make them runaway.
The last updates on vehicle import registration website (Sabtaresh) shows that Moin Motor and Mammut Khodro have succeeded to import some vehicles to Iran.
Today, the vehicle order registration website is reopening for the importers and 2018 vehicles will be riding in the street after some step up the tariffs, at last.
It has been nearly 6 months since the closure of vehicle import registration website but it is said that this website will be reopened on 31, December. Some experts pointed out that the website closure had positive effects on car market.