ArmInfo.Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan noted the importance of steps aimed at cleaning the republic from metal waste.
So, according to Pashinyan, over 11 thousand old cars have been assembled in Armenia over the past two months. "We'll cleanse Armenia of garbage," Nikol Pashinyan wrote on his Facebook page.
It should be noted that Armenia has become a kind of "graveyard" of old cars. If, as a result, from 2015 to 2020, the customs duty on cars in Armenia remained at the level of 10%, regardless of the age and volume of the engine, then from January 1, 2020, duties on cars imported into Armenia from countries that are not members of the EAEU will correspond to common customs duties of the union. As a result, a customs clearance of a car, especially for "Used" and beaten ones, which are now being bought at a low price and imported into the country in very large quantities, will increase significantly. In this regard, many are trying to manage to take advantage of the "window" of the EAEU and make money on it. As the head of the State Revenue Committee David Ananyan stated earlier, from 2020, after the entry into force of the EAEU regulations, budget revenues in this area alone will decrease by 50-52 billion drams. How much does it cost to recycle metal trash from old cars, officials are silent.
So, if in 2016 a little less than 17 thousand cars were brought to Armenia, then in 2017 - already 39 thousand, and in 2018 - 67 with more than thousand. In the first half of this year, 53,210 cars were imported into the country, for the same period of 2018 - 26,410, which indicates a double increase in the number of imported cars. As for their value, in the first half of this year, the total (customs) value of imported cars amounted to 139 million dollars. Compared with last year's figure, this is an increase of $ 32 million, or 29.5%. It turns out that indicators of car imports grew faster than their value, which indicates that cheaper cars began to be imported into Armenia. If in the first half of 2018 the average customs value of one car was about $ 4.1 thousand, then in the first half of this year - $ 2.6 thousand