USED CAR dealers now have until August 1 to to comply with correct labelling procedures in respect to their imports.
The deadline was issued by the Jamaica Bureau of Standards (JBS) following a meeting between delegations from both organisations last week.
Under the agreement, used car dealers agreed to supply The Bureau with English translations of owners manuals, including safety and health specifications of impor-ted units, a joint statement from both organisations reported.
The Bureau said following this it will publish an approved list of vehicles so that consumers can be guided as to which models have met labelling requirments.
The decision came days after a tense meeting between the Bureau and used car dealers, who had objected to one of several new measures outlined by the Bureau.
The JBS had told used car dealers to apply individually to the Bureau, to state their case as to how much time they would need to become compliant and why their vehicles should be allowed to be sold in Jamaica, for an interim period, without their having met basic labelling and standard requirements.
Last Wednesday's meeting between the Bureau and the dealers followed growing consumer complaints about used car
dealers.
Consumers had complained that they could not understand instruction manuals because they were not written in English and stated that car models were often older than the year stated by car dealers.
