Russia’s car protection tariff continues at least until 2014

Aleksey Rachmanov, director of the Automotive Industry Department of the Geely Automotive News, said recently that Russia’s high tariffs on imported vehicles will not be reduced until 2014-2015.

The current import tariffs on cars in Russia have been implemented since January 12, 2009. The original tentative deadline was 9 months. However, after the policy expired, it did not stop execution and the policy was extended for nine months. Judging from the current situation, the Russian government decided to implement this temporary policy for a long period of time.

Russia’s protection of its domestic auto industry achieved good results in 2010. In addition, the Russian government also believes that maintaining a higher tariff is also conducive to attracting foreign automakers to increase their capital investment in the Russian auto industry. This is what the Russian government most wishes to see. To the situation.

It is reported that due to the high tariff barriers of the Russian government, it is not profitable for Chinese car manufacturers to export cars to the Russian market. Chinese car companies that currently have operations in Russia are all planning to start production in Russia.

In addition, according to the Russian auto sales data for January-October 2010, Volga, a local Russian auto company, sold a total of 418,000 Lada vehicles, while the second-ranked GM Chevrolet sold only 90,000 vehicles.