In 2017, several hundred thousand non-customs second-hand with euroner numbers and less than 80 thousand were imported to Ukraine. new cars. At the same time, domestic car factories in 2017, issued from the conveyors for the year less than 8 thousand. cars. Of course, the sad results for the automotive industry were influenced not only by the mass "deliveries" of the knocked-out equipment on the Euro-numbers. Ukrainians also imported and rastamazhivali foreign cars on "preferential" excises - they were imported almost as much as sold new ones. In fact, "badges" thoroughly knocked down the internal resale of second-hand cars and literally crashed prices in this market. But there is also a "plus" - earlier the prices for used cars were quite high, now they became more accessible to Ukrainians. But the "cons" is much more. The impact of the importation of second-hand equipment on sales of new cars in the budget segment (primarily B- and C-classes) is also there. The logic of many buyers is clear and simple: why buy for $ 8 thousand. The new Lanos, if you can buy for $ 3 thousand. a real BMW? Yes, aged and orderly shabby, but with a three-liter engine and leather interior! Many consumers are willing to pay for shabby foreign cars with a foggy legal future, and in response to the demand immediately there was a proposal: firms and single-engineers supply cars from Europe in the shortest time and for every taste. Refusal to buy cars in car dealers in favor of cheap second-hand cars from Europe - a step back from the point of view of development of the economy of Ukraine. But it's not so bad. According to experts, the main trouble with the results of the year in the form of thousands of unmarked foreign cars from European meals is the degradation of the automobile industry in Ukraine as a whole. Mass replenishment (from abroad!) Of the fleet of used cars with a small residual resource means a step backwards for the transport infrastructure. If we compare the old "beushka" with the new, even budget-class cars, then there are several signs of the loss of the civilized automobile community. First, the decrease in the loading of the network of official car dealers with a broad staff of employees and the corresponding taxes to the treasury. Second, the uselessness of branded service stations with a high level of service and qualified personnel. Thirdly, the extinction of the infrastructure that accompanies new cars - bank lending, leasing, assistance. And finally, this is the stoppage of Ukrainian automobile plants, in the best years of producing almost half a million cars, trucks and buses. Naturally, with the appropriate loading of hundreds of related enterprises and millions of royalties to the treasury. Today, only two plants - "Eurocar" and ZAZ - are produced at the very least, and even ten years ago there were twice as many full-scale plants, and the output was hundreds of times larger. On assembling conveyors of Ukrainian car factories and subcontractors thousands of workers were employed. Ukrainian cars provided orders for many enterprises in several industries. Instead, third-hand machines, semi-legal dealers, second-hand trading platforms, garages with "Uncle Vasya", artisanal modifications to simplify repairs, washing from a bucket and other delights of the shadow economy.

None of them pays any taxes to the state treasury, but they want to travel on European roads ... Similar has already happened in the history of Ukraine, when in the 1990s the borders opened and a stream of battered foreign cars poured into the country. Business and authorities have had considerable efforts and many years to build a civilized market of cars and related services in the country, and together with it - a real automobile civilization. Igor Grigoryev.

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