ADDITIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL FEES INTRODUCED ON IMPORT OF CARS

Panorama.am
19:54 16/01/2007

Customs state committee told Panorama.am that 26157 cars were imported
to Armenia 7302 of which of Russian trade mark and 18855 of foreign
mark. We could not find out how much customs duty was paid in the
course of last year at least in rough estimates. According to the law
on environmental payments, 5-10 years old cars have to pay additional
environmental fees in the amount of 2 percent of customs duty. Cars
10-15 years old have to pay 10 percent of the amount and 15 and more
years old cars pay 20 percent of the customs duty.

The ministry of nature protection explains that new cars are less
harmful for the environment and people will be encouraged to buy more
new cars, thus causing less environmental damage.