Nigeria: Motor Dealers Seek Senate's Intervention in Tariff Increase

25 August 2016

Abuja — Worried about what it called high tariff by the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) on import duty and the Federal Government proposed ban on importation of used vehicles into the country, the Association of Motor Dealers of Nigeria, AMDON, has written to the Senate, seeking the latter's intervention with a view to finding a lasting solution..

The association, which claimed that its members can no longer import cars into the country again following the increment of tariff by the Customs from 35 to 70 percent on every imported car, they also complained that the proposed ban on used vehicles otherwise known as "Tokunbo cars" into the country was not only aimed at creating hardship for its members, but also raising the level of unemployment in the country.

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