Meanwhile, more than two months have passed since the approval of the regulation on the liberalization of car imports, and there are still uncertainties in the details of this regulation and how to implement it, and despite the passage of the time set for the import, no enforcement action has been taken in this regard. It seems that it will take a long time to implement this resolution.
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.
It was about forty days ago that Hassan Rouhani announced a plan to renovate the road transport fleet and said that 200 thousand commercial vehicles will be renovated.
It about a month and a half that the imported cars market and the importers are waiting for the final verdict of Administrative Justice Court (Divan-e Edalat) about imported cars’ tariff. Now the question is that will this organization announce its verdict in the final days of the year 1396?
PSA Executive Vice-President, Africa-Middle East, Jean-Christophe Quémard announced the signing of 76 contracts between the PSA group and local automakers.
According to the latest information, 400 million dollars of auto parts are imported to the country and this is while the government insist on the support of domestic production. This looks like a great conflict.
Minister of Industry, Mining and Trade said: Private Sector can also become one of the greatest powers in the automotive industry beside Iran Khodro and Saipa.
The ministry of industry, mine and trade has the engine capacity as the index for luxury cars, but more luxury cars are imported to Iran due to lower engine displacement than the index.