ArmInfo.In the first half of 2021 Armenia reduced car imports by 83.7%, against a more significant decline a year earlier - 2-fold. Thus, according to the data of the Customs Service, 2.9 thousand units of passenger cars were imported into the country during the reporting period, the customs value of which decreased by 10.3% in y-o-y terms- to $ 37.2 million.
Cars were imported to Armenia mainly from the USA (26%), Russia (22.6%), Japan (19.5%), Germany (11.6%), Mexico (6.8%), Canada (6% ), as well as from Korea, Slovakia, China, United Kingdom, Austria, Poland, France. At the same time, the export of passenger cars also significantly decreased - in quantitative terms by 93.2% (against an almost 2-fold growth in the previous year) to 117 units. In value terms, on the contrary, there is a 3.1-fold increase to $ 1.4 million.
Cars were exported mainly to the Russian Federation (54.7%), Georgia (30.7%), Hungary (16.2%), as well as to Ukraine and India.
