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Old 6th May 2007, 22:44   #7 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Mayavi View Post
Yep, you guessed right, car imports are included in machinery category and exempted from taxes! Second, pakistan (and srilanka) allow import of used cars. That is why they have more imported cars (econo sedans, not just super cars) than India. And finally, these countries do not have any local designed and built (if you discount Habib sitara, a badly designed golf cart called car because it has four wheels) cars like India has and have to import all cars.

Your answer is in your post itself. Pak & SL allow free import of cars because they do not have facilities for manufacturing one.
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