Only 17 tourist cars imported in the first month
![]() | Imported cars market: "twisted" under the policy |
![]() | Tax deadline ending for Rolls Royce importer |
![]() | Over 450 billion VND of tax will be collected by the Customs from nearly imported 400 Audi cars |
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Chart of the imports of car with less than 9 seats in January, 2018 compared to 2017 |
This information has just been released by the General Department of Customs in the second half of January 2018, the CBU car imports continued to be quiet.
Notably, the country imported only 12 cars with less than 9 seats, so that in the first month of 2018, the number of imported cars with less than 9 seats was only 17 units, with a total value of US $ 567,255.
Compared to January 2017, the number of imported cars with less than 9 seats decreased by 5,413 units, equivalent to a reduction of nearly 320 times.
However, in terms of the average import price, this year's result is higher than in the same period of 2017. Specifically, in January 2018, the import price of cars with less than 9 seats averaged US $ 33,368 / car (excluding taxes), while the import price in the same period in 2017 was only about US $18,000 / car.
Generally, in January 2018, the country imported 340 CBU cars of all types (including cars with less than 9 seats), with a total value of over US $ 21.537 million. Compared to the same period in 2017, this result has fallen sharply while in the same period of 2017, the country imported 7,227 cars with a total value of more than US $ 151,391 million.
Remarkably, according to statistics from the General Department of Customs, most of the imported cars in the early days of the year are cleared in the south region.
![]() | The importer of Rolls Royce owes tax debts of nearly 2 billion VND VCN – After several commitments about tax debts payment, and deadline for the tax commitment passed over ... |
On 8th February 2018, sharing with a Customs reporter, leaders of some border gate Customs Branches in Hai Phong city - the largest import area of cars in the North, said car imports early in early 2018 were very gloomy, only a few cars were imported and they were mainly diplomatic cars.
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