When Chevrolet Ruled Uzbekistan (2019)
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#2I am from this country and what is written there is exactly as it is.
It is very hard or impossible to come to a car store to buy a car and go back with that car home in one day. You must first make an order and wait for months(usually 4-6) while your car be ready.
Moreover, if you want to buy a car from foreign manufacturers (Mersedes-Benz, BMW, Toyota, etc) you have to pay 2X of its original price.
Re: When Chevrolet Ruled Uzbekistan (2019)
#3I am from this country and what is written there is exactly as it is. It is very hard or impossible to come to a car store to buy a car and go back with that car home in one day. You must first make an order and wait for months(usually 4-6) while your car be ready. Moreover, if you want to buy a car from foreign manufacturers (Mersedes-Benz, BMW, Toyota, etc) you have to pay 2X of its original price.
Do you still live there?
Re: When Chevrolet Ruled Uzbekistan (2019)
#4I am from this country and what is written there is exactly as it is. It is very hard or impossible to come to a car store to buy a car and go back with that car home in one day. You must first make an order and wait for months(usually 4-6) while your car be ready. Moreover, if you want to buy a car from foreign manufacturers (Mersedes-Benz, BMW, Toyota, etc) you have to pay 2X of its original price.
Do you still live there?
No, I relocated to Moscow 4 years ago. But I visit my parents once a year. That's why I still know what is happening there.
Re: When Chevrolet Ruled Uzbekistan (2019)
#5This is final assembly only, an absolute minimum required by law to qualify out of heavily tariffed foreign made car category (the countries of former USSR, except for Baltic ones, like to highly tax foreign import in order to supposedly protect "domestic manufacturer" - as result nobody has good car building industry). There have been several such Daewoo/Chevrolet plants across the former USSR. Russia for example also builds Ford and BMW that way. For example back in mid-199x Elabuga (city in Russia) Chevrolet Blazer factory had extremely sweet conditions on the Chevrolet Blazers to be assembled there - basically attach the bumpers and some other details - it took 1 hour for 3 workers per car.
Re: When Chevrolet Ruled Uzbekistan (2019)
#6Are tractors heavily tariffed? Motorcycles?
Re: When Chevrolet Ruled Uzbekistan (2019)
#7I am from this country and what is written there is exactly as it is. It is very hard or impossible to come to a car store to buy a car and go back with that car home in one day. You must first make an order and wait for months(usually 4-6) while your car be ready. Moreover, if you want to buy a car from foreign manufacturers (Mersedes-Benz, BMW, Toyota, etc) you have to pay 2X of its original price.
Has it not changed at all since the article's publication a bit over a year ago? The author expresses hopes of the new leadership changing things at the end but I take it that didn't happen?
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#8Are tractors heavily tariffed? Motorcycles?
Every vehicle is heavily tariffed. Maybe that is the reason why you very rarely see someone on a Harley-Davidson or Triumph. Tractors are usually imported by the government.
Re: When Chevrolet Ruled Uzbekistan (2019)
#9This is final assembly only, an absolute minimum required by law to qualify out of heavily tariffed foreign made car category (the countries of former USSR, except for Baltic ones, like to highly tax foreign import in order to supposedly protect "domestic manufacturer" - as result nobody has good car building industry). There have been several such Daewoo/Chevrolet plants across the former USSR. Russia for example al…
Russia used to have few car manufacturers and produced almost every car part rather than importing it. After USSR collapse those cars were not very competitive, especially with used cars from Japan and Europe, unfortunately, so those factories either died or optimized (like VAZ which is part of Renault-Nissan now and is moving to just build western Renault designs rather than develop and improve their LADA cars). That's quite tragic situation, plenty of people are losing jobs, country is losing an expertise.
I'm living in Kazakhstan and we have foreign import tax and "localized builds" (very minimal work is done). But actually we're in economic union with Russia, so most of new cars are built in Russia and imported without much taxes. So it's not that bad here. AFAIK Uzbekistan recently joined EAEU, so, I guess, situation should improve over few years.
Re: When Chevrolet Ruled Uzbekistan (2019)
#10I am from this country and what is written there is exactly as it is. It is very hard or impossible to come to a car store to buy a car and go back with that car home in one day. You must first make an order and wait for months(usually 4-6) while your car be ready. Moreover, if you want to buy a car from foreign manufacturers (Mersedes-Benz, BMW, Toyota, etc) you have to pay 2X of its original price.
Has it not changed at all since the article's publication a bit over a year ago? The author expresses hopes of the new leadership changing things at the end but I take it that didn't happen?
Yes, the situation is slowly changing and currently you don't have to pay a bribe (it is called a "shapka" in article) to buy a new car from a car stores.
BTW: "shapka" or "шапка" (from Russian) is translated to English as a "hat" or "cap". That means, when you buy a thing, you need to also pay for its hat too.