myanmar's golden phoenix daily reported on october 23 that, with the approval of the federal government of myanmar, on october 16, the myanmar automobile import regulatory commission announced its automobile import policy for 2018.
according to the policy, myanmar automobile importers were only allowed to import left rudder vehicles in 2018.
reported that after the introduction of the policy of importing only left-rudder cars, the sales of used japanese cars in myanmar market increased by an average of about 500,000 kyat. some automobile dealers said that the domestic automobile market will gradually become a new automobile market, and restricting the import of right-rudder cars will lead to a stagnant rise in the ownership rate of public cars.
some experts also said that the left-rudder vehicle conforms to myanmar's current traffic rules and the policy will reduce traffic accidents.
after myanmar became a democratic regime in 2011, it opened up some automobile imports under the military government. in the past five years, 640,000 engineering, family and other vehicles were imported, of which more than 180,000 were imported in the fiscal year 2013-2014 (april 1, 2013-march 31, 2014). japanese used cars with high quality evaluation have been popularized.
according to the japanese secondhand car export industry group, japan exported about 160,000 vehicles in 2014, and myanmar became the largest exporter