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Uzbekistan bans import of buses, trucks below Euro-3standard

Business Materials 5 January 2010 14:01 (UTC +04:00)

Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Jan.05 / Trend , D.Azizov /

Uzbekistan put a ban on import of definite types of vehicles which do not meet requirements of "Euro-3" ecological class from Jan.1, 2010, Uzbekistan's State Customs Committee said referring to President Islam Kerimov's decree on "Measures on further development of production in Samarkand automobile plant and renovation of Republic's motor transport".

According to the decree, from Jan.1 import of buses being in operation (3 years from the date of production) M2 (weight not more than 5 tons), M3 (weight exceeding 5 tons) and trucks N2 (weight not more than 12), as well as new vehicles of indicated categories, equipped with petrol and diesel motors, whose toxicity ration does not meet requirements of ecological class "Euro-3". Import of vehicles for special purpose (ТN VED 8703 and 8705) is not banned.

As reported earlier, Uzbekistan banned import of vehicles of indicated categories which do not meet requirements of ecological class "Euro-2".  According to Government's relevant decree, next restriction will be applied on "Euro-3", beginning from 2010. 

Restriction on import was made for further stimulating the production of buses and trucks in the Samarkand Automobile Plant Company (SamAuto), stocking and renovation of park of the republic's vehicles, as well as increasing the safety of passenger and cargo transport and reducing harmful emissions into air.

Uzbekistan has developed an action plan on the phased decommissioning of buses and passenger minibuses, with the exploitation term of over 10 years.

SamAuto LLC was established on the basis of the Turkish-Uzbek joint venture SamKochAvto in 2006. Japanese Itochu bought eight per cent of SamAuto in May 2007. The other shareholders of the company are Uzavtoprom - 66 percent and Uzbek Asaka Bank - 26 percent.

Trucks with load-carrying ability from 4 to 18 tons, and passenger buses with a capacity of 37 persons are produced at the car plant.

The design capacity of the enterprise is 4,000 cars a year. The company planned to produce 2,100 in 2009 compared to 2000 cars in 2008.

Production of cars is based on the agreement on technical assistance between SamAuto and Isuzu Motors, providing Samarkand auto plant production technology of buses and low-tonnage trucks of Isuzu.

Uzavtoprom and German MAN Nutzfahrzeuge AG established a joint venture JV MAN Auto-Uzbekistan for production vehicles in August of 2009. The joint venture JV MAN Auto-Uzbekistan produced MAN trucks based on SamAuto in September. The joint venture plans to produce trucks TGA with load-carrying ability from 15 to 50 tons.

Two car plants - ZAO GM Uzbekistan (formerly JSC UzDaewooAuto, Asaka, Andijan region), which produces passenger cars, and LLC SamAuto which produce buses and trucks operate in Uzbekistan.

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