Tanzania rewrote the tax rules for imported used vehicles on 1 July 2026, and every dealer who ships into Dar es Salaam needs the new numbers. The Finance Act 2026 replaced the earlier treatment of older cars with three age-based excise ban......
China has begun dismantling the tax incentives that made its electric vehicles the cheapest in the world. A new 2% consumption tax on lithium batteries took effect on September 1, 2026, the long-running purchase-tax exemption for new-energy......
Kenya tightened the gates on used-vehicle imports on January 1, 2026, and the ripple effects are still spreading through East Africa's second-hand car trade. Under rules enforced by the Kenya Bureau of Standards (KEBS), only right-hand driv......
Ghana is one of West Africa's most open markets for imported used cars, and China has become its most natural supplier. Ghana imports more than 100,000 vehicles every year, about 90% of them used (Bymotorcar, April 2026), while Chinese car ......
The United Arab Emirates has become one of the most dynamic markets for Chinese electric vehicles - and used BYD models are now part of that story. While the UAE's new-car market fell 22.2% year on year in the first seven months of 2026 (Fo......