Nonsense policy

grandstar:
This is what happens when the law is an a***

The high import duty on cars is simply a death sentence on the vibrant tokunbo car industry that has and is providing livelihood for hundreds of thousands of Nigerians both directly and indirectly.

Nigeria has no comparative advantage in manufacturing cars so why place business killing tariffs on them in the first place.

Though this tragic script started with GEJ, it should have been scrapped by Buhari. This would be asking too much due to a lamentable understanding of economics,

Be prepared to pay through the nose for cars henceforth

plz dont bring GEJ into this rather blame ur VEGETABLE BUBU

I think I agree with this new method the customs is employing. They've basically given up on policing the borders because its just impossible to man every entry point into the country 100%. Even the Americans don't have the password for manning their birder with mexico.
What the customs is doing now is to destroy the incentive for smuggling. What's the point of smuggling cars from Cotonou into Lagos to Avoid import duty when the Customs will still impound your car in Lagos if you don't have your Customs clearance? Its the same with rice. What's the point of smuggling Rice through Benin Republic when the smuggled rice will be seized in Sango and Ibadan?

Crazy ppls where unaa dey when all the cars entering our country without custom papers...mumu ppls

Them break into shops at sango market loading thousands of bags of rice but the Igbos were insulting the afonjas. Now let us see how many people this new policy would affect.

grandstar:
This is what happens when the law is an a***

The high import duty on cars is simply a death sentence on the vibrant tokunbo car industry that has and is providing livelihood for hundreds of thousands of Nigerians both directly and indirectly.

Nigeria has no comparative advantage in manufacturing cars so why place business killing tariffs on them in the first place.

Though this tragic script started with GEJ, it should have been scrapped by Buhari. This would be asking too much due to a lamentable understanding of economics,

Be prepared to pay through the nose for cars henceforth

Bros we have a lot of Auto assembly plants here in Lagos. They have no market for their cars because these car dealers you're whining for have made a lot of money bringing in cheaper and older vehicles from Benin Republic. If they still want to remain in business, they will start looking Inwards at our own local Car assembly plants and manufacturers. Nobody patronises Innosons in Anambra because of these your car dealer friends that keep saturating the market with cheaper and older cars. It is more advantageous for Nigeria to create thousands if jobs in a local Automotive industry than allow a few car dealers make profit.

Why are you mentioning GEJ here--Did GEJ appoint the present custom boss--What is wrong with your brain

grandstar:
This is what happens when the law is an a***

The high import duty on cars is simply a death sentence on the vibrant tokunbo car industry that has and is providing livelihood for hundreds of thousands of Nigerians both directly and indirectly.

Nigeria has no comparative advantage in manufacturing cars so why place business killing tariffs on them in the first place.

Though this tragic script started with GEJ, it should have been scrapped by Buhari. This would be asking too much due to a lamentable understanding of economics,

Be prepared to pay through the nose for cars henceforth

88% of cars in the North have no custom paper - cars smuggled in from Niger/Kastina after paying 10,000 to corrupt officials

0.1% have no custom paper in the South west and most cars entered via Lagos Port and custom has since been using the approach on car owners in the south west, particularly in ogun, Sango, Ota, Lagos , Ibadan axis,

Its time for the North to vomit our tax they have swallowed , but I'm sure this will not work because they will kick against it!

That's how they roll!

udees:
Why are you mentioning GEJ here--Did GEJ appoint the present custom boss--What is wrong with your brain

The high import duty on cars was introduced during GEJ administration but it's Buhari that is fully implementing it to the letter. That's the truth whether it's unpalatable or not! It was introduced by Agangan, the Minister of Investment under GEJ.

SBG04:

Bros we have a lot of Auto assembly plants here in Lagos. They have no market for their cars because these car dealers you're whining for have made a lot of money bringing in cheaper and older vehicles from Benin Republic. If they still want to remain in business, they will start looking Inwards at our own local Car assembly plants and manufacturers. Nobody patronises Innosons in Anambra because of these your car dealer friends that keep saturating the market with cheaper and older cars. It is more advantageous for Nigeria to create thousands if jobs in a local Automotive industry than allow a few car dealers make profit.

Nigeria has no comparative advantage oin manufacturing cars.

For a car plant to manufacture cars competitively, it must produce at least a 100,000 cars. Nigeria's new car consumption is not up to 100,000!
Cars made here will be above the international market price.

It is not by force Nigeria makes cars. Let the country manufacture something it is good at.

Car dealers should sew uniform for hamid ali free of charge

grandstar:


Nigeria has no comparative advantage oin manufacturing cars.

For a car plant to manufacture cars competitively, it must produce at least a 100,000 cars. Nigeria's new car consumption is not up to 100,000!
Cars made here will be above the international market price.

It is not by force Nigeria makes cars. Let the country manufacture something it is good at.

I'm sorry but you're still not getting the point. We have a 200 million man market and we have just a few vehicle assembly plants that nobody will even patronise because there are car dealers making all the money from importing/smuggling old and worn out " tokunbo" vehicles.
Which is better : to have as many car assembly plants in Nigeria with thousands of jobs created and banks creating innovative products to allow people own cars plus extra revenue from the government from higher import duties on Imported cars and cleaner and more environmentally friendly and new made in Nigeria cars, or to allow the smuggling continue, allow our car assembly plants to die slowly with little or no patronage and job losses but with the car dealers smiling to the bank with millions and billions?

criminals, what will happen after the one month grace period? the cars will turn to property of Nigerian customs? isnt that some form of criminality

This neanderthal has just laid Nigerians wide open to extortion, armed robbery and abuse by his corrupt minions in the NCS.

makes no sense

a 6 month time-frame would have shown forethought

have they thought of the implications for public safety due to congestion if everyone descends on their offices at the same time?

how officers will attend to those that come?

How many can be attended to in a day?

How many can be attended to at a time?

How much space is there for those waiting to stay while others are being attended to?

How about the parking space in and around their offices?

Policies made without detailed consideration of what if scenarios

This should be for incoming Cars, not cars that have already been in use for years...
Are these Customs people sane?

Are the looking for ways to generate revenue, misplaced priority

Fellow Nigerians, we better protest this now else we will regret like crazy. So many will lose their cars for nothing. Current customs duty ain't cheap.

If this should apply , it should be for newer cars not cars that have been in use for more than a year.

These folks keep on piling hardship on the people.

More money to the clearing and forwarding agents.

those it mean l will Park my camry. thounder go fire dis man if he try dat.

This is so uncommon sensical. Just one month, 4 zonal offices that'll probably be filled with poor PR officers.

The best thing to do would have been... Opening up an online or e-portal/ platform for document verification/ confirmation and possible payments.

If ur car was registered 5years ago this policy no concern u.

plainol:
The raiding of rice recently was just a litmus test. People didn't speak against that BULGLARY carried out by these LEGALISED THIEVES.

Now, the table is on car owner, cars will be "stolen" in motion by these people. They will break into people's homes while tagging it ROUTINE CHECK.

I dislike that customs boss, he still lives in 12th century, just like Trump.

Oga shut up jor, Can you drive a car with no genuine custom duty on westenr world? Hatred will not let someone of you reason like human..

How will the country move forward if we keep doing things illegal?

afamaustin:
those it mean l will Park my camry. thounder go fire dis man if he try dat.

So your camry no get custom paper? hmmmm

Custom is encouraging smuggling! Why not create a website for the public to verify if duty has been paid on vehicles to be purchased, Of course, no dealer will smuggle cos it surely will be bad business!!

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Nigeria has no comparative advantage oin manufacturing cars.

For a car plant to manufacture cars competitively, it must produce at least a 100,000 cars. Nigeria's new car consumption is not up to 100,000!
Cars made here will be above the international market price.

It is not by force Nigeria makes cars. Let the country manufacture something it is good at.

Which policy govt wants to introduce that you won't complain? Yet you want Nigeria to be like,UK,USA, Spain etc there, they operate stricter policies & implemented almost 100%.
You want to use car, yet you don't ready for custom papers? Is that how they do in advanced world? It's abnormal and absurd. Brazil, Japan, India, I think they started automobile productions even when they knew that they couldn't compete with the West, but with their consistencies,today they are countries of reckoning. *start consuming what you can produce, its only remedy for economy emancipation.

Harwoyeez:
Bad move, it should be for new ones brought in n not cars that's been in use for years

Its a great move by the CG. You have a months grace to check with customs.
It has alot of security benefits to the Nation apart from Revenue

ISTANDWITHBUHAR:


Oga shut up jor, Can you drive a car with no genuine custom duty on westenr world? Hatred will not let someone of you reason like human..

How will the country move forward if we keep doing things illegal?

God bless you my bro, it shows the mindset of people in Nigeria how corrupt they are. How does smuggling helps the economy?
Tomorrow this set of people will be shouting the economy is not performing

All this Old cargos in govt are just myopic in decision making.This bubu appointees just happy to inflict hardship on Nigerians.
Is this the way forward to smuggling in Nigeria?This should have been for newly smuggled cars.

These sons of wh0re will take cars from south west and south East then sell it cheap ti their aboki brothers.




And some low lifers still believe in one nigeria

SBG04:

I'm sorry but you're still not getting the point. We have a 200 million man market and we have just a few vehicle assembly plants that nobody will even patronise because there are car dealers making all the money from importing/smuggling old and worn out " tokunbo" vehicles.
Which is better : to have as many car assembly plants in Nigeria with thousands of jobs created and banks creating innovative products to allow people own cars plus extra revenue from the government from higher import duties on Imported cars and cleaner and more environmentally friendly and new made in Nigeria cars, or to allow the smuggling continue, allow our car assembly plants to die slowly with little or no patronage and job losses but with the car dealers smiling to the bank with millions and billions?

Let the assembly plants die.

Importation of tokunbo cars provide far more jobs and livelihood for people than the assembly plants.

Utomi said something very constructive. This is coming from a former high up in the car industry.

He said Nigeria should focus on what's its good at

If its only the leather you're good at and you supply 10% of the world demand for car production, you'll go places.

If its tyres and you supply 5% of world demand, the impact would be considerable.

You don't have to kill the thriving tokunbo car industry in order to enter into the car business.

The brilliant ones in here don't know the fact that in USA the import duty on cars is 2.5% and when the car is sold there is a sales tax of about 6% total 8.5%. China that has put restrictions on American trucks charges 25% which happens to be the highest rate developed country charge.

They want 70% from southerners turned a legitimate industry into and illegal business criminalizing southerners while the northerners can drive around no worry about custom papers when 80% of customs police and all agencies used to extort money is based within 17 states in the southern part of the country there is a pro lemme of intimidation going on right now.

They are brazen to chase us even on local govt roads it's only a matter of time they start house to house raids in the south