More than 2.2 billion USD of car imports in 2017
According to the preliminary report of the General Department of Customs, in December 2017, more than 13,000 complete cars were imported into our country.
Of these, 8,070 cars were imported from Thailand, accounting for more than 60% of the total number of cars imported in the month. This amount of imported cars increased by more than 112% in quantity (in November there were only 6,422 cars) and nearly 100% in value compared to the previous month.
Notably, in the last month of the year, the number of imported cars with less than 9 seats increased dramatically, reaching 3,857 cars, nearly 5 times higher than in November (592 cars). This is considered a hasty import move to "run" Decree 116, which took effect from January 1, 2018.