Where the 48,314 Cars Went: Kyrgyzstan Buys $38,000 Cars, Kazakhstan $15,500 Ones
Georgia's uncleared advertised stock reaches 62–64% in the $8,000–25,000 bands; Kyrgyzstan's declared average is $38,000, Kazakhstan's $15,500.
Where uncleared stock sits
On 23 August, 9,021 of 15,781 advertised listings (57.2%) still awaited customs
clearance, with a median ask of $14,500. The uncleared share varies across the market
by price band:
By age it is starker still: 75.2% of 2022-and-newer listings are uncleared,
against 45.9% for 2016–2019 cars and 28.1% for anything from 2015 or older.
The uncleared share is highest among the young mid-market rows and lowest among the
oldest rows in this advertised-stock reading.
January–July car exports by destination
Declared export cars and value, HS 8703, January–July 2026. Average per car is a mean of declared values.
The January–July export map
Geostat's detailed release of 19 August, together with the destination analyses
published on 20 August, completes the picture on the other side of the border.
Georgia exported 48,314 cars worth $1.161 billion in January–July — motor cars
remain the country's #1 export commodity (24.9% of goods exports, −21.5% in value)
even as the total contracts. The destinations split into visibly different markets:
Kazakhstan takes the volume; Kyrgyzstan takes the value. A Kyrgyzstan-bound car has a
mean declared value two and a half times the Kazakhstan figure. The $8,000–15,000
advertised band also has a high uncleared share, giving the two views a useful market
comparison while they describe separate vehicle populations.
The January–July export map
Geostat's detailed release of 19 August, together with the destination analyses
published on 20 August, completes the picture on the other side of the border.
Georgia exported 48,314 cars worth $1.161 billion in January–July — motor cars
remain the country's #1 export commodity (24.9% of goods exports, −21.5% in value)
even as the total contracts. The destinations split into visibly different markets:
Kazakhstan takes the volume; Kyrgyzstan takes the value. A Kyrgyzstan-bound car has a
mean declared value two and a half times the Kazakhstan figure. The $8,000–15,000
advertised band also has a high uncleared share, giving the two views a useful market
comparison while they describe separate vehicle populations.
January–July car exports by destination
Declared export cars and value, HS 8703, January–July 2026. Average per car is a mean of declared values.
Iran's July: off the June peak, still far above every earlier month
Iran, which took 7 cars in January–July 2025, took 6,749 worth $119 million
this year. The July-only flow works out to roughly 1,700 cars — derived by
subtracting the January–June count (5,086, preliminary) from the total for all seven months,
so it inherits the revision margin — down from June's 2,567 but still more than any
month before May. The same subtraction puts July's Kazakhstan flow near 2,960 and
Kyrgyzstan's near 2,440: the two big northern markets re-accelerated in July after a
weak first half (January–June: Kazakhstan −35%, Kyrgyzstan −46%).
Azerbaijan is the mirror story: volume down 38% but value down only 2.6% — the
average Azerbaijani-bound car has jumped in price, from roughly $27,000 (full-year
2025) to $33,500.
The wider transport context
The second-quarter transport statistics released the same day add wider context:
Georgian seaports handled 33.0% more cargo than a year earlier, and
container-ship arrivals were up 34.8%. These transport readings accompany the
January–July car-export figures while describing a broader cargo mix.
Reading the two market views
Export values are declared border values, and the destination table counts exported
cars. The uncleared-share cut and the export map describe separate populations: a car
advertised uncleared in Tbilisi this week belongs to the listing view, while the trade
table covers January–July declarations. Destination averages are means influenced by
the mix of declared values in each market.
AutoBridge advertised-stock reading of 23 August 2026 alongside Geostat January–July export statistics; destination averages are declared values.
Methodology
AutoBridge proprietary database.
Over 128,000 unique listings published since January 1, 2026.