No-remittance Imports
Sir, —You refer to perjury and the “relatives dodge” to obtain qualifying funds for imported cars. Yesterday such practices, although accounting for a large slice of imports, would have been denied vehemently as, no doubt, ail other dodges will continue to be. “Winning” overseas lotteries and doubles on Australian racecourses, and cars “lent” by the registered owners until the resale restriction expires, will continue, but the real black market involves trafficking in the vast majority of cars imported freely. There can be no assurance that there are only a “few disreputable car salesmen.” Indeed, how can a reputable firm compete when almost every car is nominally a no-remittance import? In a deal which he believes is shady, the prospective purchaser either pays under the counter or goes without. Like the locked door which deters only honest men, the no-remit-tance scheme hits only the decent wage and salary earner. Yours, etc., VARIAN J. WILSON. June 11, 1965.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30776, 14 June 1965, Page 10
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