Bureaucratic Obstacles * Turkey - Chinese buses banned from traffic
Istanbul,Turkey -Today's Zaman, by İbrahim Balta -16 Mar 2007: -- Initiatives of Chinese firms to access the Turkish auto market have been blocked. Chinese Jinling double-decker buses, which are produced by Zhong Da, carried passengers for only two weeks in İstanbul’s streets before they were outlawed... The Turkish Patent Agency (TSE) cancelled the buses’ certificate of conformity and the İstanbul Electric Trolley and Tunnels Administration (İETT) banned the usage of these buses for public transportation... The price of domestically manufactured double-deckers, which are already used for public transportation, is 165,000 euros and the price of a Hungarian bus is 190,000-200,000 euros... “If I would sell the buses for 140,000 euros rather than 121,000 euros they would not be banned. The decision was made because of those who lost their benefits wanted to pressure [the government],” Ali Rıza Üstün, owner of the İstanbul Motor Company, brought the buses to Turkey claimed... He said that he had faced many bureaucratic obstacles when he wanted to import buses from China since the beginning. Üstün added automobile dealers in Turkey were negotiating with Chinese firms and he claimed the bans would be revoked after they dealt with those firms...
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