Price and time of entry of foreign cars into the country

According to Tejarat News, after the approval of the regulations Car import Last week, according to the parliament members, according to this regulation, cars worth less than 10,000 dollars are supposed to enter the country with a tariff of less than 20%.

Quoted from fellow-citizenAccording to the calculations, with the current dollar rate, the price of cheap imported cars will be around 180-325 million Tomans. However, it is not yet clear how many cars with a price of less than 10,000 dollars will enter the country.

Following the currency crisis in 2017, the car import license was canceled. This was the decision of the central bank officials, which was taken due to the prevention of foreign currency leaving the country, but the cancellation of the import license led to the limitation of supply in the domestic market and unbalanced the supply and demand of the car market.

In such a situation, the government emphasized at the end of last year that in order to increase the amount of car supply in the market, it plans to release imports and allocate a part of imports to cheap cars. In his visit to automobile manufacturing companies in March of last year, the president emphasized on lifting the ban on automobile imports.

According to the officials of the Ministry of Industry, estimates show that the demand floor for buying cars is around 1.5 million units and some calculations even estimate this demand to be up to 2 million units. In such a situation, taking into account that automobile companies produce one million vehicles annually, part of the market’s needs are supposed to be met through imports, and now with the approval of the regulations related to Car import On Wednesday of last week, the path of this work was paved and according to the officials of the Ministry of Industry, the car import plan is going to be implemented from September.

The arrival of cars worth 300 million tomans

As some members of the parliament who are aware of the provisions of the car import regulations have informed, car imports are supposed to be carried out within two limits of 10,000 and 20,000 dollars, but the main focus of the mentioned regulations is on facilitating the import of cheap cars, so that a large part of the need Cover the car market annually.

This means that the amount of the tariff considered is in a staggered manner and a tariff will be considered for 10,000 dollar cars and a higher tariff will be considered for more expensive cars.

Ali Jadi, a member of the Parliament’s Industries and Mines Commission, said about this yesterday: For cars under $10,000, import customs tariffs are below 20%. Mustafa Taheri, the chairman of the Parliament’s Industries and Mines Commission, had previously said: For economic cars, including cars worth less than 10,000 dollars and around 6,000 to 8,000 dollars, this tariff has been reduced and is between 10 and 20 percent.

The figures presented by the members of the parliament, considering that the rate of each dollar in the open market is 28 thousand 500 tomans and the foreign currency is about 26 thousand 600 tomans, shows that the price of cheap imported cars will probably be in the price range of 180 to 320 million tomans.

Currently, the price of a car is 6,000 dollars with a 10% tariff rate and assuming the import of these cars with a half exchange rate will be around 180 million Tomans and with a 20% tariff it will be 195 million Tomans. The price of a 10,000 dollar car will be around 300 tomans with a 10% tariff rate, and 325 million tomans with a 20% tariff rate.

However, it is not yet clear how many cheap cars will be imported at this rate.

According to experts, if the government intends to balance the supply and demand in the market and thereby provide price stability in the car market, the volume of cheap cars should be imported in a circulation of at least several hundred thousand cars so that it can effectively influence the market. have an effect

Currency restrictions

Although, according to experts, the import of cheap cars should be carried out in high circulation, some news shows that there is still no consensus on the circulation of imports due to currency barriers, because the Central Bank is against the large-scale withdrawal of currency from the country.

Unofficial news shows that in order to provide foreign exchange sources for car imports, the government has included a moratorium in the import regulations, which allows some exporters to import cars in exchange for exporting some products, but according to the requirements related to meeting foreign exchange obligations. Exporters, the central bank is against this plan.

Yesterday, in this regard, Farhanaz Rafe, head of Iran’s National Handmade Carpet Center, said: According to the car import regulations, any carpet exporter who exports $70 million can import cars. But Ahmad Karimi-Esfahani, the head of the Handwoven Carpet Producers and Exporters Union, said: This issue has just been raised and for now it is just a matter of words.

Amir Hossein Kakaei, an automobile expert, also said about this: Under 10,000 cars are supposed to be imported. If the JCPOA problem is solved, the car price will decrease to some extent, but the main problem is that the central bank Car import is against

The received news also shows that within the last 2 days, various meetings have been held in the Ministry of Industry regarding the provisions of the car import regulations, but there was no consensus on this and one of the disputed provisions is the clause related to the import of cars in exchange for exports, which the Central Bank It is the opposite.