UMW Toyota may end Hiace exports
Thailand’s refusal to lower it’s 20% import duties for incoming Malaysian exports down to AFTA’s 5% might result in UMW Toyota ending exports of the locally assembled Toyota Hiace van to Thailand. Due to the extra duties, UMW Toyota’s Hiace vans have had to be priced at a less competitive price in Thailand, so sales targets are much harder to meet. Thailand refuses to give Malaysia the 5% AFTA rates because it accused Malaysia to be non-compliant under the AFTA because of non-tariff barriers - the Approved Permits system! More details via additional readings below.
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November 15, 2006 @ 11:21 am
see what Mrs 30% will say to media later…
November 15, 2006 @ 2:04 pm
yes… support engtaokia’s statement.
November 15, 2006 @ 5:22 pm
“Kalau tak suka, boleh pergi ke China”
“Malaysia entitled to AFTA”
You know what, the idiot(s) sitting up there continue to talk cock. The people below are eating banana.
I like Hiace. Good for business! But who care about it, it is neither P1 or P2! Which ultimate aim is to suck money form rakyat, rather then earning exports.
November 15, 2006 @ 8:19 pm
bravo to Thailand wee all love u!. that how to teach boleh land a lesson not every 1 like Malaysian is stupid n yes sir to all what stupid gov say!
November 15, 2006 @ 9:04 pm
results of our protection policy to our P1….impose AP system even to AFTA country,…limits thai total export to malaysia 20,000 units annually….impose exciseduty…..although reduce import duty to 5%…with all this restriction and counter measures,can blame thai refusal to lower the tarrif……..we ask for it…….saddddd.citizen.
November 16, 2006 @ 2:35 am
and thats just the beggining.
and to oranglulu….we didnt ask for it….the government and a fat ugly lady did.
November 16, 2006 @ 1:17 pm
Baru 20% suda macam cacing kena goreng, not competitve la & etc.. why not 75% like our ED tax.. but lucky la org siam also tak heran with our national cars.. or else siam can copy our NAP… but i encourage any country dealing with msia (import our products).. can use our stupid NAP system (good what??).. they can earn a lot of money ma??.. like our gov… then see our gov be the frying worms…
November 16, 2006 @ 7:35 pm
do u think our malaysia gov earn a lot of money by that way? by do this way is to save there own color like spoon feeding monkey in cage, by the way our country r pores then Thailand in national reserve if we dont know the fact by now.
November 18, 2006 @ 8:39 pm
yes, Mrs 30% will say that we need to do it la…
November 19, 2006 @ 12:18 pm
bravo thais!!!!
should give malaysia some lessons too.
they play unfairly also!!!!
welcome to BOLEH-DI-LOCAL-SAJA-LAND!!!!!!F**K.
November 23, 2006 @ 7:15 am
Yes, finally Toyota give up……….i do hope all the other Japs ( honda, mitsu, nissan, subaru etc. ) will unite and smackdown Toyota. Ugly design, cheap cost, large volume, save fuel ……Urghhh, simply out of style……