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Car Becomes Luxury For Belarusians

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Car Becomes Luxury For Belarusians

What "iron horses" residents of our country ride.

Import of cars to Belarus fell by almost half in the first quarter of this year, and compared to the same period last year it has decreased by more than four times, Zavtra Tvoej Strany writes.

In Belarus, which citizens have actively invested their savings in vehicles for several years, "car" dynamics fully reflects the level of depletion of the population.

According to the National Statistics Committee (Belstat), 8 467 passenger cars worth $ 117.2 million were imported to the Belarusian market in the first quarter of this year.

Compared to the first three months of 2016, imports decreased by 51.1% in quantitative terms (in January-March 2016 imports amounted to 17,299 cars), and by 36.5% ($ 184.7 million) in monetary terms.

First of all, the decrease in the import of vehicles from Russian car dealers and markets, which has recently become key places to purchase cars for Belarusian drivers, affected the overall situation. 16 786 cars totaling to $ 176.1 million moved from the neighboring country to the garages and courtyards of Belarus in the first quarter of last year, but only 6 726 cars totaling to $ 91.7 million were imported in the first three months of this year. The volume of purchases decreased by 59.9% in terms of the number of cars and by 47.9% in terms of money.

Unlike Russia, volumes of import of cars from other countries have grown.

Slovakia has become one of the largest suppliers of "cars" for Belarusians this year. 418 units of machinery worth $ 7.1 million were imported from this country, which is 8.5 and 7.6 times more than in the corresponding period of the previous year, respectively.

In monetary terms, Slovakia has surpassed the popular source of replenishment of the car park, which is stated in the Belarusian statistics as "the country is unknown". Import from this source increased 4.3 times in terms of the number of cars (from 185 to 798 units) and 3.7 times in terms of money (from 1.7 to 6.4 million dollars).

Import of cars from Germany has also increased: 192 units in the first quarter of 2017 compared to 87 units last year. Import from China (from 92 to 102) and the USA (from 29 to 79) also increased this year.

Import of cars to Belarus is falling over the past two years. In January-March 2015, their volume was 30,509 units and $ 297.6 million in terms of money. Russia (27 428 units), "the country is unknown" (2183), China (273) and Germany (182) became the main suppliers of cars to the Belarusian market this year.

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