Armenia is a relatively safe country for business, although it experiences tensions with Azerbaijan. Among the documents you must have when importing a car from Armenia are:
Proof of vehicle ownership
Purchase invoice/sales invoice (price, date and place of original purchase)
Certificate of Origin
Copy of passport, driver’s license, visa and other identification documents
Inspection certificate (car is working and meets technical specifications)
Packing list of car items
Certificates required for importing cars to Armenia (registration of order, standard, scrapping and import license)
Business Cards
Insurance
Procedures for importing cars from Armenia
The procedures for importing a car from Armenia are as follows:
First, you find the seller of the desired car by researching and checking, and you buy the car in Armenia personally or with the help of an agent.
At this stage, before transporting the car to Iran, you register the car order from the comprehensive trade system and collect the necessary documents to submit to the Armenian customs of Iran.
The next step refers to the selection of the shipping method to the Iranian customs.
After transferring the car to the customs, you do the car clearance.
After the clearance, it is time to number the car. You have to go through these steps to import a car for temporary transit from Armenia.
Conditions of import of temporary transit car from Armenia
The importation of a temporary transit car from Armenia includes conditions and laws that the compliance with which protects and exempts the importer from committing the crime of goods smuggling according to the laws of Iran. These conditions are:
- The life limit of imported used cars should not be more than 5 years, that is, only cars manufactured from 2018 onwards can enter Iran.
The sources of foreign exchange required for the import of cars in Armenia should be from the sources of foreign currencies obtained from the investor’s exports, the source of foreign currencies and other sources approved by the Central Bank of Iran.
Armenian cars with a cylinder volume less or more than 1000 cc, but not more than 2500 cc.
The price of imported cars should not exceed forty thousand dollars.
Car importing companies must provide the car with after-sales service guarantee to the customers.
The import of temporary transit cars from Armenia does not include luxury cars such as Maserati, Bugatti or Porsche.
The person importing the car must have lived outside of Iran for at least 3 months.
After passing their 3-month period, temporary transit vehicles are allowed to renew their license plates only once, after which they must take the vehicle out of the country within 10 days, otherwise they will be prosecuted for smuggling.
Temporary pass cars cannot be rented to non-rental persons and only the owner of the car is allowed to drive it.
The conditions for importing a car for temporary transit from Armenia are subject to the provision of a guarantee, which should be three times the value of the car and is done in the form of a cash deposit.
