The Guardian Council’s opposition to car imports / approval returned to parliament

According to Tejarat News, as the spokesman of the Guardian Council said, the parliament’s decision on liberalizing car imports has several ambiguities. One is the ambiguity about importing cars without currency and the other is the contradictions of this decree of policies to protect Iranian production and capital.

According to Hadi Tahan, one of the objections of the Guardian Council to liberalizing car imports was about Article 4 of this plan. That is, the import tariff for hybrid cars, which, of course, was amended by the parliament.

The second objection was about how to transfer currency, and the Guardian Council asked the parliament to state how to import cars without transferring accurate and transparent currency.

In addition to the Guardian Council’s own objections, the Expediency Council considered the system of liberalizing car imports to be inconsistent with policies to support Iranian production and Iranian labor and capital. According to Tahani, the Assembly even considered Article 10 of the resolution, which had not been challenged before, to be against the policies.

Now, the decision to liberalize car imports is to be returned to the parliament and its objections and ambiguities are to be examined and resolved. After that, this resolution must be returned to the Guardian Council for review, and if approved by this council, it will become law.

Assembly opposes car imports

Earlier, Mustafa Mirsalim had said that the Expediency Council was opposed to the decision to liberalize car imports, and that the Guardian Council would certainly not approve the decision.

But Davood Danesh Jafari, a member of the Recognition Council, had said that Mirsalim’s remarks were not the opinion of the Assembly and were his personal opinion. The Assembly does not oppose the import of cars.

In the initial plan, it was proposed to eliminate the import tariff on hybrid and electric vehicles. The proposal was rejected by the parliament and the import tariff on hybrid cars remained in force.

Danesh Jafari had said that if the dispute between the parliament and the Guardian Council is not resolved, the decision on car imports will be left to the Expediency Council, which will have to decide on this decision.

Of course, as the spokesman of the Guardian Council said, the Assembly has new objections to this resolution. But apart from the assembly, the liberalization of car imports has other opponents, and even the Minister of Silence is against it. Because Reza Fatemi Amin announced last week that the government has no plans to import foreign cars.

Meanwhile, car market activists say that if the import of foreign cars into the country is liberalized, it will affect both the reduction of foreign car prices and the price of domestic cars. Some activists have even reported a 40 to 50 percent reduction in car prices in the market, which if the assembly opposes the plan, the price reduction will be eliminated and even the price of foreign cars may become more expensive.