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  1. Join Date
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    President Arroyo should do something to stop this rampant smuggling of vehicles from Subic because it is destroying our already moribund motor industry..........

    Auto smuggling still rampant, threatens vehicle industry
    By Daxim Lucas
    Inquirer
    Last updated 04:43am (Mla time) 08/09/2007
    The Philippine automotive industry continues to suffer the effects of rampant vehicle smuggling, which is hampering its development despite a recent increase in legitimate sales.
    In a recent interview, Ford Group Philippines president Henry Co said smuggling of vehicles continued to pose a serious threat to the viability of the automobile industry, which in turn, threatens the livelihood of the thousands of workers employed by it.
    “Vehicles are highly regulated products, but smuggling continues,” he said, describing the smuggling activities in the Subic Bay Freeport in recent months as “still significant.”
    “Motor vehicle smuggling is an indication of how bad governance could be,” Co added.
    The Philippine industry remains hard-pressed to surpass the 100,000-mark in annual sales since falling to the 80,000-level in the wake of the 1997 East Asian financial crisis. The Ford Philippines chief said that the inability of the industry to recover from the post-crisis sales slump was due, to a large degree, to the sharp increase in smuggling activities in Subic and other ports in recent years.
    In particular, he said smuggling of used vehicles “has grown substantially over the last 10 years” and continues despite last year’s Supreme Court decision affirming the illegality of the practice.
    Co said the local automobile industry had an annual capacity of 200,000 vehicles, but estimated that the utilization rate stood at only 25 percent of this, due to the prevalence of cheaper, smuggled vehicles.
    The Chamber of Automotive Manufacturers of the Philippines Inc. sees auto sales to top 100,000 this year, partly due to rising affluence, brought about by the strong economy.
    Co believes, however, that this level would be even higher if not for the availability of smuggled vehicles, which drain the industry of legitimate sales.
    More importantly, the Ford Philippines chief believes that vehicle smuggling has the potential to bring down the local automobile industry, given that legitimate sales remained relatively weak even as vehicle registrations had been increasing yearly—the difference being made up of smuggled vehicles.
    Already, he said several automotive parts makers have closed shop or moved to other countries because of weak sales.
    “Over the long term, something has to be done,” Co said. “Can a country like the Philippines with over 80 million people afford to be without an auto industry?”
    He said the government only has to have the resolve to implement last year’s Supreme Court decision.
    “It’s illegal,” he said. “It should be easy and simple enough.”


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  2. Join Date
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    Sad...

    If there were no buyers, there would be no sellers....

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    taxes should be lessen lalo na sa b-new cars..hirap sa pinas: tax dito tax doon, permit dito, permit doon, red-tape dito, red-tape doon...aba sa dami ng taxes natin dapat mayaman na bayan na natin...at di yung mga sakim sa gobyerno natin...

    practically, kung masmura at mas maraming options pa ang b-new than those smuggled they claim, aba, i personally wont hesitate to buy one....

    kaya nagkaroon ng notion na pag local version: most likely "tinipid version"

    dapat all-option are available, hirap kasi sa local auto market natin sila ang kumokontrol sa market, katulad ko, sino lang ba nagoofer ng 4wd van-->hyundai, medyo basic pa...e..jdm 4wd vans,ayus-ayus lang(siyempre used na to noh!) mas maganda pa!

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    Quote Originally Posted by alwayz_yummy View Post
    taxes should be lessen lalo na sa b-new cars..hirap sa pinas: tax dito tax doon, permit dito, permit doon, red-tape dito, red-tape doon...aba sa dami ng taxes natin dapat mayaman na bayan na natin...at di yung mga sakim sa gobyerno natin...
    FYI... the tax for vehicles costing less than P700K is already at the lowest level.

    Quote Originally Posted by alwayz_yummy View Post
    practically, kung masmura at mas maraming options pa ang b-new than those smuggled they claim, aba, i personally wont hesitate to buy one....

    kaya nagkaroon ng notion na pag local version: most likely "tinipid version"

    dapat all-option are available, hirap kasi sa local auto market natin sila ang kumokontrol sa market, katulad ko, sino lang ba nagoofer ng 4wd van-->hyundai, medyo basic pa...e..jdm 4wd vans,ayus-ayus lang(siyempre used na to noh!) mas maganda pa!
    I think you are contradicting yourself there... you want the lowest price but with a lot of options/features? If you want a fully optioned vehicle, then expect to pay for it - there's no such thing as a free ride.

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    If the laws against smuggling are properly implemented or given more 'teeth', there would be no smugglers - no sellers, and no buyers.

    Okay din naman ang surplus, basta ba legal ang importation

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    IMO, most technological advancement doesnt come cheap. What the gov't should do is remove corruption. Ying kinukuha ng corruption pinapasa lang sa mga buyers...

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    Sabi sa press release.....LTO is doing something daw to help eliminate vehicle smuggling.....

    ows talaga lang ha......

    Bakit di sila pumunta dito sa Cavite at lantaran at malawakan ang bentahan ng junk Subic vehicles dito kaya namatay ang local assemblers dito.

    Tapat lang ng LTO Imus ang mga nagbebenta ng mga smuggled na vehicles na yan, bakit di sila mag-inspection o kaya i-kumpiska para naman lumaki ang tax intake ng gobyerno at di pinagdi-diskitahan ang mga pobreng income earners through R-VAT and Withholding tax.....tulad ko....

    Kaya local assemblers, MVPMAP pati na rin big boys ng CAMPI nagre-reklamo na.... smugglers na lang kumikita.......

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    dapat less, crappy old cheap cars. more cheap high performance cars.

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    the reason for smuggling in my opinion is that there is a market for cheaper cars... i mean second hand local cars are still so expensive..

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    basta ba brand new ini-smuggle nila eh ok lang. pero kung 2nd hand na makakadisgrasya ng iba innocente sa kalsada dapat pati smuggler puwede ikulong

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