 Nigeria spent a total of 601.51 billion naira on the importation of motor vehicles in the first half of the year. This is contained in the recently released Foreign Trade Report published by the National Bureau of Statistics. This represents a 15% increase compared to 523.57 billion naira recorded in the corresponding period of 2020, despite the reduced import duties on vehicles. Total imports accounted for 4.4% of total imports of 13.8 trillion naira recorded in the period on the review. Meanwhile, a total of 1.09 trillion naira was spent on vehicle imports in the previous year.