Importers of used cars have lost a court bid to stop a requirement that their vehicles be assigned registration number plates at the point of clearance.
The taxman has dismissed a claim by a section of car importers that its demand for registration of imported used motor vehicles before entry at the point of clearance amounts to discrimination.
Locally assembled new cars can only be registered once off the production line as a complete unit, the National Transport and Safety Authority(NTSA) maintained.