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Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Foreign used car dealers laying off workers

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For­eign used car deal­ers have start­ed lay­ing off staff be­cause sales have slowed down and they have not re­cieved their 2016 quo­tas.Visham Bab­wah. pres­i­dent of the T&T Au­to­mo­tive Deal­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTA­DA) said some deal­ers had run out of stock and had no choice but to stop op­er­at­ing.

Speak­ing at a news con­fer­ence in Ch­agua­nas, Bab­wah said TTA­DA of­fi­cials dis­cussed their con­cerns with Min­is­ter of Trade Paula Gopee-Scoon in Oc­to­ber but their pleas seemed to have fall­en on deaf ears.

He said when the deal­ers got their quotes they will know the amount of ve­hi­cles they would re­ceive and the per­mis­si­ble age of im­por­ta­tion. How­ev­er, he said, even if deal­ers get their quo­ta pack­ages to­mor­row they would not have cars for sale un­til March. He said ap­propx­i­mate­ly 10,000 peo­ple are di­rect­ly or in­di­rect­ly em­ployed in the sec­tor and many are al­ready feel­ing the bite of the re­ces­sion.

Bab­wah said TTA­DA is ap­peal­ing to the Gov­ern­ment to hold con­sul­ta­tions with in­dus­try play­ers be­fore any de­ci­sions are made that af­fect the in­dus­try. He said for­eign sup­pli­ers from Japan have al­so set up shop in T&T to en­cour­age per­sons to im­port their own cars.

TTA­DA vice pres­i­dent Rhon­dall Fields said he sent home work­ers in De­cem­ber af­ter his quo­ta end­ed.


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