2,500 imported cars rot in customs

According to the online economy report, quoted by Isna, Seyyed Ruhollah Latifi emphasized that the more than 2000 cars that are waiting for clearance are different from the cars that are in the property management organization, he explained: the cars that are in the property management organization , they are either smuggled or they have been declared abandoned due to the impossibility of clearance, so the copies are not the same.

He stated that the owners of more than 2,000 cars are waiting for the clearance of their goods, and said: Among them, 900 cars have no order registration. Every product that wants to be cleared must have a condition of order registration and confirmation of currency origin from the central bank and a warehouse receipt, and there is no prohibition for its entry in addition to the above three conditions. Therefore, the mentioned 900 machines do not meet one of the conditions for declaring the goods to the customs, and when the goods are not declared, the rest of the clearance procedures cannot be carried out unless they can obtain all the conditions.

They had an order for 300 cars, but it was canceled

The spokesperson of the customs continued: Of course, more than 300 cars out of 900 cars have already registered orders, but their order registrations were out of date, which were canceled after the arrival and inspection of the customs and the decision of the regulatory bodies. About 600 cars had no order registration at all. Because before some importers imported their goods and then they did the order registration process. After that, according to the law, the entry of the car was prohibited and it was no longer possible to place an order. The owners of these cars were waiting for the policymaker to give them an opportunity as acquired rights so that they could import their cars.

Latifi, referring to the discussions about the liberalization of the entry of cars into the country, said: Now that the issue of the entry of cars into the country is discussed, we can provide the opportunity to register the order of these 900 cars. This issue depends on the government’s policy because customs is not a policymaker in the field of foreign trade, but only an executive.

He further explained about about 1000 other cars: among these 1000 cars, 140 cars were for the Arvand Free Zone above 2500 cc or were ordered and manufactured by America, whose importation is prohibited according to the law. Of course, the government and the parliament can make a decision on this matter and these cars can also be assigned a task, provided that the Ministry of Privacy, as the trustee, raises the issue in the government delegation and if it does not conflict with the laws of the parliament, it will be implemented.

The spokesman of the customs continued by stating that about 1000 cars also have private plaintiffs or court cases, and stated that more than 12 thousand cars had not been cleared after the ban on the entry of cars, which according to the previous government’s approvals, in 4 stages, nearly 10 A thousand cars were cleared. About 2,000 cars remained and their condition was described. About 1,000 cars remained that either have a private plaintiff or a court case or suspicion of smuggling, and if they are acquitted, they can be released.

What is the story of parked cars?

After the Parliament’s resolution on car import was removed in the Budget Law 1401, in June, the law on the organization of car import, which was passed in November last year in order to organize the market, was notified to the government. It was supposed to be finalized and announced within a month, but there is still no news about it.

However, the news indicates that the car will arrive until September, which is less than a month away, and as Manouchehr Lagi – Deputy Minister of Transport of the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Trade (Samat) – emphasized, according to the plan, the car import will be done until September 1401. will be

Now the import of cars, which was banned since 2017 due to the currency situation, has been canceled and the government has predicted about 19 thousand billion tomans of income from car imports in the new year in this year’s budget, but the import is still unclear and its mechanism is clear. is not.

On the sidelines of this flow, there is the issue of imported cars deposited in the customs, which arrived at the customs years before the import ban, and as a result of the one-time decision to ban, remained undecided. More than 12,000 cars were deposited in the customs, and finally, with several approvals and time extensions, a large number of them were cleared from January 2017 to September 2019, but another part was not cleared for various reasons and has remained in warehouses for a long time, and many times pictures Their poor condition was published in cyberspace and attracted the attention of users.