The story of the supply of cars in the commodity exchange; Complex, ambiguous and contradictory
Eqtesadonline – Sara Mohseni; On the morning of June 7, while Dignity and Fidelity buyers were waiting for the start of trading of 430 vehicles, the Iran Commodity Exchange Company announced that the supply of cars in the Commodity Exchange would be suspended by the order of the Ministry of Silence.
According to the letter, according to the approvals of the 63rd session of the Supreme Economic Coordination Council in September last year, the Ministry of Silence will be responsible for regulating the car market and will be coordinated by the Market Regulation Headquarters. According to the decision of the 63rd session of the Supreme Economic Coordination Council, which was approved by the Supreme Leader of the Revolution, the responsibility of regulating the car market, including compiling and communicating price regulation instructions, is currently the responsibility of the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Trade. Is.)
This supply was stopped while the registration of the order for this number of cars had started on 11 June and continued until yesterday. In fact, customers had seven days to register their order, and money was deposited as a down payment!
This order of the Ministry of Silence was communicated to the Iran Commodity Exchange while the opposition to the supply of cars in the Commodity Exchange after various conflicts, finally ended in the last days of 1400 and the acceptance of Shahin car (from Saipa products) in the meeting of the admission board. Commodities and securities were approved, and on the other hand, in May of this year, a total of 103 Kara-two-cabin and Kara-single-cabin units were sold on the Commodity Exchange.
However, the Ministry of Silence did not respond. But last night, it issued a response stating that the ministry had corresponded with the Commodity Exchange several times with the aim of preventing the violation of people’s rights and offering outside the integrated car allocation system, which was created with the aim of transparency and monitoring the correct supply of cars. Unfortunately, the effect was not arranged.
Today, however, in a letter to Minister of Silence Fatemi Amin, the National Inspection Agency warned of irregularities in the way the lottery was drawn and the names of the main winners and reservations were changed. The letter emphasizes that the performance of the Ministry of Silence has led to public concern.
However, it should be noted that the cancellation of the car supply in the stock exchange, apart from the vague announcements and responses of the Ministry of Silence and the Commodity Exchange, has another aspect that goes back to the Islamic Consultative Assembly and its approvals. Although the issue of car supply in the commodity exchange was removed from the priority of the parliament, there are ambiguities in some of the plans, which are discussed in detail in this report.
History of the law “Organizing the automotive industry”
It was on November 17 of last year that the plan to “organize the automobile industry” was approved by the Islamic Consultative Assembly after amendments were made to it. However, it was on the 10th of Azar 1400 that the Guardian Council, citing a letter from the head of the Supreme Board for Supervising the General Policies of the System, considered this decree contrary to paragraph “2” of Article 110 of the Constitution and sent it to the parliament for amendment.
On June 7, this year, the law “Organizing the Automotive Industry” was notified to the government for implementation. The law was initially proposed by some members of the 10th parliament under the title “Organizing the Car Market”, but its title was changed to “Organizing the Automotive Industry”. This plan, which was approved in the open court of the parliament in 2009, faced objections from the Guardian Council. Some of these objections were resolved during the tenth parliament, but the remaining objections were postponed to the eleventh parliament.
As mentioned, before the bill became law, the Guardian Council returned it to parliament. However, the parliament’s insistence led to the plan being sent to the Expediency Council. This law was initially faced with the problems and objections of the High Board of the Expediency Council, but after the parliament followed, the Assembly finally approved it. (This law was approved by the Islamic Consultative Assembly on November 17, 1400, and was approved by the Expediency Council on May 12, 1401, in accordance with the interests of the system.)
“Production and organization of car supply”; A plan that did not vote, but was approved!
It was on November 16, 2016 that Hojjatullah Firoozi, the spokesman of the Industries and Mines Commission of the Majles, announced the general approval of the plan “Production and organization of car supply” in the meeting of the Industries and Mines Commission. According to Firoozi, the plan to “produce and organize the supply of cars” was fully presented at the meeting, after which the proponents and opponents expressed their views on the plan, and finally the general plan was approved by the commission.
According to this plan, all cars, with the exception of low-volume cars, had to be listed on the Iran Commodity Exchange. On the other hand, cars that are not offered on the commodity exchange, both the seller and the buyer, are criminalized and punished, and the goods are considered as smuggled goods.
In September of last year, Ruhollah Izadkhah, a member of the parliamentary industry commission, referring to the 11th parliament’s plan to organize the car market, said: The 11th parliament plan to organize the car market, one of the main issues of which is the supply of cars in the commodity exchange, in a recent year It has been examined in the Industries Commission and its text is ready to be presented to the parliament. In addition, unlike the former Minister of Silence (Alireza Razm Hosseini) who did not want to implement this plan, during the conversations we had with Mr. Fatemi Amin during this period, he announced his readiness to accompany this plan.
In fact, Minister of Silence Fatemi Amin first tacitly agreed to the plan. But after a while, he called the plan unprofessional and announced his opposition to offering the car on the Commodity Exchange last fall.
But the point is that on June 7, this year, Mostafa Taheri, a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Industries and Mines, said in an interview with Eqtesadonline: “There was a plan to supply cars in the Iranian Commodity Exchange, which did not get enough votes. They were against this plan. Therefore, the question arises that if the general plan of “production and organization of car supply” which refers to the supply of cars in the commodity exchange was approved in the meeting of the Industries and Mines Commission, which plan did the deputies oppose?
On the other hand, yesterday (June 20, 1401), Ruhollah Izadkhah said: “From the beginning, our decision in the parliament was the full supply of cars in the commodity exchange.” So far, the mechanism of the Competition Council, mandatory pricing and lottery in this area has not been associated with a positive result, and the application of these measures has led to more inflammation in the market.
According to him, the Industries and Mines Commission of the parliament is now seriously pursuing the cancellation of the decision of the Ministry of Silence and the continuation of car supply in the commodity exchange, and if we reach an agreement with the government, we will see the implementation of decisions to supply cars in the commodity exchange; Otherwise, by raising this issue in the court, we will legalize the supply of cars on the stock exchange.
Ali Jedi, a member of the Parliamentary Committee on Industries and Mines, said about these remarks of Ruhollah Izadkhah in an interview with Eqtesadonline: “Last year, there was a plan to supply cars in the commodity exchange. It was about importing cars, put it aside. But it is possible that he will run in the commission again and return to the court.
The plan to organize the car was presented in the tenth parliament. But the Guardian Council rejected Article 4 of the plan. The Industries and Mines Commission abandoned the car reorganization plan, which was opposed to Article 4.
He added: “Mr. Izadkhah means the plan to” organize the supply of cars “which is related to the current parliament and the Industries and Mines Commission can follow it up again. Several meetings were held in the commission on this plan, but it was decided that the priority would be to “organize the automobile industry”.
Jedi stated: Last year, in addition to the opposition, this plan also had supporters. But the priority was to return to the previous plan. The bottom line is that the car must be produced in sufficient quantity and the problem will not be solved just by offering the car on the commodity exchange.
“Light car market and industry transformation” project
In addition to the above-mentioned plans, on September 7, 2016, the plan “Transformation of the light car market and industry” was announced. The interesting point is that according to Article 2 of this plan, car manufacturers and companies affiliated with the automobile industry can only offer their production car through direct supply in the commodity exchange. The supply of cars by these companies outside the commodity exchange is a crime in any way and the perpetrator, both the seller and the buyer, are each sentenced to the punishment mentioned in Note (1) of Article (18) of the Law on Combating Commodity and Currency Smuggling.
On December 25 of the same year, Firoozi, a member of the Industries and Mines Commission, announced the review of the market transformation plan and the light vehicle industry in the presence of the Deputy Minister of Industries of the Ministry of Silence and the Chairman of IDRO in the last agenda of the commission meeting. Present your proposal in the next meeting and after reviewing, determine which of the plans can meet the needs of the market.
According to him, the Ministry of Silence has discussed the method of offering cars on the stock exchange and claims that it can solve the problem with its plan.