Does Iran import cars from India?

Sara Ghazanfari/ According to Tejarat News, it was exactly in July 2017 that the government poured clean water on the hands of car importers and it was announced that car imports were officially and completely closed. Although this story started in 1994

“The change in the rules and the obligation of miscellaneous importers to obtain guarantees from official importers” continued until the possibility of placing orders in the car import system was disrupted in 2016 and after that the car order registration site was closed to importers. .

Keep this sad story of car import until we reach March 2019, when the whisper of the liberalization of this process began. At the end of May 1400, domestic car manufacturers clearly stated in a letter, “Car manufacturers have no objection to the liberalization of car imports and consider it a factor for improving the competitive environment and creating peace in the market and among consumers. “Actually, car manufacturers cleared the issue that they are blocking the liberalization of car imports.

Ambiguities of import liberalization

Finally, the minister of Samat answered the ambiguities and announced that in 1401 the story of the liberalization of car imports will come to an end. But there was not much result. Disagreements started between whether a 10,000 dollar, 20,000 dollar and 25,000 dollar car will be imported. The confusion created is indescribable.

On the one hand, we witnessed strange road accidents due to the safety defects of domestically produced cars, to the point where the voice of Seyed Kamal Hadianfar, the head of the Faraja Traffic Police, was heard saying, “Not only about domestically produced cars, but also about imported cars, we are sensitive.” We will monitor their safety and if a car does not have the necessary safety, its numbering will definitely be prevented.” But what is the story of this imported car that is stopped if it has safety defects?

Importing Indian cars at the cost of people’s lives

But what is the story of the import of Indian cars that Jalal Rashidi Kochi, a member of the Islamic Parliament, announced in his last comment on his personal page in the virtual space and television program: “The Renault car that is produced in India and Brazil is unsafe that you (referring to the ministry) Samat) as an economic car you want to enter. This car is not allowed to travel in many countries of the world because it has zero safety stars! Either the car import ceiling should be removed or raised. With this import ceiling and the proposed figure, this type of import is not suitable for an economic car for the middle class!”

Rumors of the entry of Indian cars into Iran became stronger since 2015, but when these cars did not pass the standards, the story of their entry was not taken seriously. At the same time, the year 1995 was the peak of car import and there was no need to import a car from India until, for example, France was in the middle and Peugeot was the flagship of car imports.

But bringing the word of import of Indian car, the traffic police also got involved. The head of the traffic police said about importing cars into the country: “Today, we don’t have a safe car for less than 10,000 dollars anywhere in the world. It is not correct to say that they want to bring a 6,000-dollar car from India.” Just the name of a foreign car that does not create safety, otherwise we had the same Pride and Tiba and there was no need to import. I heard several cars are stored in India and they are planning to bring them! “We definitely disagree.”

Now they said that the Indian car they were looking for didn’t even pass the 85 standards!

Car import regulations are confidential!

Now, have all these interpretations that we explained about car import to get to the bottom of the story. Minister Samet has announced that imported cars will arrive in Iran this September! This is despite the fact that there is still no news about the car import regulations and it was announced two days ago in the latest statements about the car import regulations that the parliament does not know about the regulations and does not know how it is written!

Ruhollah Abbaspour, the spokesman of the Parliament’s Industries and Mines Commission, announced the secret drafting of the regulations for the import of cars in the government. Still no one knows about the provisions of this car import regulation, how many cars will be imported? How many thousand dollars car? 10 or 20 or 25 thousand dollars? After all this, registration of the import order, customs process and approval and all these things are a long story. It is not clear how the car import is going to be released in less than a month and from which countries are we going to import? India and Russia? or European and Asian countries.

As we know, car customers are fans of Korean and Japanese markets, and is it possible to import cars from these markets with these figures that are announced and then denied?

However, the reality is that the story of the liberalization of car imports in Iran has become a tangled mess that in the absence of the world’s big and famous car manufacturers, our market has become the second-ranked Chinese car market with a strange price. In the next car report, we will definitely write for you about the presence of Chinese and assembled cars with non-economic prices in the domestic market.