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The Trinidad and To­ba­go Au­to­mo­tive Deal­ers As­so­ci­a­tion (TTA­DA) is warn­ing that the planned clo­sure of the Trinidad and To­ba­go Bu­reau of Stan­dards (TTBS) tyre in­spec­tion unit at the VM­COTT sta­tion in south Trinidad could cre­ate ma­jor set­backs in the in­dus­try.

TTA­DA pres­i­dent Visham Bab­wah told Guardian Me­dia on Mon­day that the as­so­ci­a­tion was no­ti­fied last week that in­spec­tions will now be con­duct­ed in-house at car deal­er­ships and at the premis­es of pri­vate im­porters.

Bab­wah de­scribed the an­nounce­ment as dis­mis­sive of TTA­DA’s con­cerns. “They did not want to tell us whether this de­ci­sion came un­der in­struc­tion from the Min­istry of Trade or if it was made sole­ly by TTBS. They al­so re­fused to state how many staff mem­bers would be in­volved,” he said.