DON’T PANIC – GOVT TO ‘DUBAI’ DEALERS
MANZINI – Hold your horses.
This is the message from government to import car dealerships.
Ministry of Finance Communications Officer Setsabile Dlamini said import car dealerships that sought to attain import permits for their vehicles older than seven years should hang in there while the ministry formulated a strategy that would deal with their quagmire.
This follows that on August 28, 2020, a gazette revoking Legal Notice No. 80 of 2012 came into effect. This was the Used Vehicles Import Permit Specification Notice, 2020, which stipulates that import vehicles oldder that seven years would no longer be permitted to enter the country.
The signatory to the notice is the Minister of Finance, Neal Rijkenberg.
Its implementation resulted in them (import car dealerships) being denied import permits to bring into the country automobiles they had procured prior to the pronouncement of the new legislation.
This has resulted in them seeking audience with Rijkenberg as they expressed the challenges they would face and also their clients.
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