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By "Protect" you mean "Employ extra bureaucrats, make a few smugglers rich, and make it harder for the vast majority of the population to get access to affordable / reliable / efficient cars", yes? ;-)

Not exactly, In Morocco you can buy cars like Toyota Prado, Land Cruiser 105 and it´s normal their authorities try to dificult "paralel" importatios via high taxes. In Spain it´s almost the same. Anyway Moroccan taxes, and in general moroccan administration, are copied from French system.
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Not exactly, In Morocco you can buy cars like Toyota Prado, Land Cruiser 105 and it´s normal their authorities try to dificult "paralel" importatios via high taxes. In Spain it´s almost the same. Anyway Moroccan taxes, and in general moroccan administration, are copied from French system.
Well, the last time I chatted with a Moroccan car dealer he was amazed at how cheaply I'd bought my vehicle in Europe. (He seemed interested in some kind of dubious import deal, since I occasionally go to vehicle auctions in the UK, but the language barrier was too high).

Meanwhile some of dealer's neighbours were driving around in old, inefficient, unreliable rustbuckets. (If they could afford an extra €1500 they'd drive around in a 15-year-old Mercedes which is merely inefficient). But most of the locals didn't have cars at all.

In Spain? A person or a business can simply bring a vehicle in from another EU country and sell it, with no import taxes, and very little paperwork. This helps ensure that people in Spain, like in other European countries, have better access to a wide range of affordable modern cars.
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Nowadays you can see more medium level families with new cars, small, but new cars like Dacia, Citroen Berlingo, etc. and less old cars. Since they are mounting cars in Morocco, some years ago, importing cars is not a great deal. Consider that Morocco is an emerging country.

You are right, into the EU you don´t have to pay importation taxes but you must pay an registering tax (Impuesto de Matriculación) that deters you to bring a car form Germany or France, in Portugal is worst. This tax is another way of protecting national market.
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In Spain? A person or a business can simply bring a vehicle in from another EU country and sell it, with no import taxes, and very little paperwork. This helps ensure that people in Spain, like in other European countries, have better access to a wide range of affordable modern cars.
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Spain , -like UK- has Its own import duty on cars. Indeed exactly the same as every other country . Why wouldnt it be ?

Any foreign registered car should be registered before 6 months , or the vehicle re-exported or impounded->destroyed.


Importing an UK registered vehicle *indeed any EU -registered* into Spain is such as mess , troublesome experience that It is best avoided . I ve done it twice and never-ever again.

and from 2006 they won't register any more RHD.


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