Joint Foreign chambers of commerce in the Philippines recently urged the government to immediately stop the importation and resale of used vehicles through port Irene in Cagayan Province.

Since these imports started in June 2005, nearly 8,000 units have entered the Philippines through the port, competing with vehicles assembled by the local subsidiaries of American, Japanese and European car companies “We are of the opinion that these used vehicle importation and sales at the Cagayan economic zone are illegal and contrary to the policy of president Arryo,” the group said in a letter to Finance Secretary Margarito Teves

The group urged the Bureau of Customs to stop the imports immediately.

While free ports like Subic Bay are allowed to import such vehicles, the law limits their use to within the economic zones, and bars their entry in Philippine Customs terriotory.

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Cuba is spending $2 billion to upgrade its public transportation system and has imported 3000 modern buses to run in and around the capital.

First comes, the stink of diesel, then a metallic roar, and finally a tower of black smoke that tells you the “camello” the camel has reached your stop in Havana. These hulking 18-wheeled beasts, iron mutants made of two Soviet-era buses welded together on a flatbed and pulled by a separate cab, have long been Havana’s public transport nightmare bumpy, hot and jammed with up to 400 passengers at a time.

But their gradual disappearance is a telling sign of change in the twilight of the Fidel Castro age.

The last “camello” is expected to go out of service in Havana in April.

The camello, so named for its humped front and rear sections, is being eclipsed by 3000 new city buses from China as government under Castro’s brother, Raul, resuscitates a public transportation system on the brink of collapse.

“I think we should build a monument to the camello,” said retiree Salvador Carrera, a camello passenger. “It has been an extraordinary thing.”

The capital aside, camellos are far from extinct. The government has an island-wide fleet of more than 1,000, and those from Havana could be used to augment bus service elsewhere, transportation employees say. “We can carry up to 400 people. The bus cannot, “lamented conductor Estela Doira.”I’m happy, also sad, because the camello handles a lot more than the bus. “The camello was born in response to fuel shortages in the early 1990’s, when the Soviet Union collapsed and Cuba lost its annual $6 billion in subsidies.

The economy has since recovered thanks to heavy borrowing for China and nearly 100,000 barrels of oil a day for Venezuela.

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Jamaica government’s proposed increase in taxes on motor-vehicle imports has raised fears of a downturn in the automobile business, whose members say the likely consequence will be a hike in automobile prices and less affordable vehicles.

“It definitely will have negative effects in the sale of motor vehicles and also as it relates to the price the consumer has to pay,” said president of the Jamaica Automobile Dealers’ Association, Kent Lacroix.

That view was echoed by president of the Jamaica Used Car Dealers’ Association, Ken Shaw. The Jamaica Chamber of Commerce has also weighed in.

President Mark Myers of Chamber says the cost of cars with 2 liter engines, would likely rise 11 percent as a result of the assitional tax.

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The tax increases on imported used cars have closed all ways for used cars to enter Vietnam.

Car importers say that the high taxes on used imports have made them more expensive and not attractive in the eyes of consumers any more, except super luxury cars.

A used Toyota Camry, for example, will have the sale price of over $50,000, which proves to be uncompetitive.

Car traders have given up used car imports.

A representative of Vinh Hoang Company said that used cars do not attract consumers anymore due to the overly high prices.

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The New Zealand Minister of Transport Safety has expressed his doubts importing vehicles from New Zealand.

His comments come amid the controversial Right Hand Drive Bill proposed by Samoan Government in October last year. The RHD bill proposes to switch the current road code from driving on the left hand side, like that of New Zealand and Australia. The previous ban on the importation of right hand drive vehicles was lifted in February, signaling the seriousness of the Government’s proposal to switch sides.

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