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Paraguay File

New-car import data for Paraguay from the customs administration's record-level open data — every import declaration item, with the tariff line that names the powertrain, the declared state new or used, brand and description. Paraguay builds no cars, so its car market is measured by its imports.

2026-10
Latest period held
3.9%
TTM BEV share (Whole)
1
Variants

Who sells the cars

Whole · last 12 months (2025-11 → 2026-10) · 39,902 new imports in total. Units are imports; the model is read from the declaration's free-text description (the words after "MODELO", or the whole text when it is just a designation such as "TANK 400 PHEV 4WD"), first three words, upper-cased. A description without a model counts for its brand only. BEV / PHEV / HEV / petrol / diesel exactly as in the CSV — the tariff subheading; HEV includes mild hybrids.

Top brands — % of each powertrain; header: the powertrain's % of all importsimports; header: the powertrain's total

#BEV3.9%1,569PHEV7.5%2,985HEV11.8%4,711
1Chevrolet20.7%325Great Wall18.1%539Toyota39.7%1,871
2BYD14.8%232BYD13.8%411KIA19.6%921
3Volvo13.9%218Jetour11.6%346Hyundai9.7%456
4Icaur9.2%144Soueast9.7%289Great Wall7.7%361
5Jmev7.4%116Chery8.9%265MG5.8%271
6Aion2.6%41Lynk & CO6.0%179Chery4.9%231
7Dongfeng2.4%38Icaur5.6%166Lexus3.4%161
8GAC2.1%33BMW4.2%126Renault2.4%113
9KIA2.1%33Volvo4.2%125Nissan2.2%102
10Geely2.0%31Deepal3.9%117Honda1.0%49
rest22.8%358rest14.1%422rest3.7%175

Top designations — % of each powertrain; header: the powertrain's % of all importsimports; header: the powertrain's total

#BEV3.9%1,569PHEV7.5%2,985HEV11.8%4,711
1EX30Volvo12.9%202Song Plus DM-IBYD5.9%177SportageKIA14.3%674
2V23 Comfort A/TIcaur7.1%111NEW H6 PhevGreat Wall5.1%153ALL NEW TucsonHyundai6.1%286
3Spark EUV TChevrolet5.0%79Tank 400 PhevGreat Wall5.0%150T4 PRO 1Chery4.9%231
4Yuan PROBYD4.5%70Yuan PRO DM-IBYD4.6%136Jolion PRO HEVGreat Wall3.9%183
5Captiva EV PremierChevrolet4.4%6906Lynk & CO4.1%123SorentoKIA3.9%183
6EV3Jmev4.3%68T8 PRO 1Chery3.5%106ZS LUX HEVMG3.4%162
7EV2Jmev3.1%48T7 PRO 1Chery3.3%99NEW H6 HEVGreat Wall2.9%135
8Spark EV ATChevrolet2.5%40S06 Phev IIISoueast3.1%93Koleos AlpineRenault1.9%91
9Captiva Premier EVChevrolet2.3%36S06 Phev VSoueast3.1%93Corolla CrossToyota1.4%64
10V23 Luxury A/TIcaur2.1%33S08 Phev GLSSoueast2.8%82CarnivalKIA1.3%62
11EV5KIA2.1%33V27 Luxury 1Icaur2.7%80X-Trail E-Power ExclusiveNissan1.2%59
12EX2Geely1.5%24X5 XDRIVE50EBMW2.6%79NEW KonaHyundai1.0%46
13Yuan UPBYD1.5%23H6 GT DeluxeGreat Wall2.3%69X-Trail E-Power AdvanceNissan0.9%43
14YplusAion1.3%21H7 Phev 4X2Great Wall2.3%68RAV4Toyota0.9%40
15Sealion 7 AWDBYD1.3%20XC60Volvo2.1%64Haval Jolion PROGreat Wall0.8%37
rest44.1%692rest47.3%1,413rest51.3%2,415

HEV = full hybrid (no plug; counted as ICE in the curves).

Raw source

Go and check the numbers yourself:

DNIT (customs, ex Dirección Nacional de Aduanas) — Portal de Datos Abiertos ↗

How the data flows

Origin
SOFIA, the customs declaration system of the Dirección Nacional de Ingresos Tributarios (DNIT)
Download

The customs portal publishes every import and export declaration item of a month as one CSV (about 300 MB in 2026). The server is slow per connection but serves byte ranges, so the fetcher downloads a month as twelve parallel pieces (about a minute) and checks the size. A month is only used once its file was generated after the month ended.

Pick the cars

Only imports of NCM heading 87.03 (passenger cars, SUVs, MPVs) count. Whether the car enters the Paraguayan market is decided by the customs regime of the declaration.

Customs regime of the declaration?
  • definitive import for consumption (IC… — incl. from a bonded warehouse, IC09), diplomatic (ID04/ID09) or from a free zone (ZF2I)
    Declared state of the goods (USO)?
    • NUEVOWhole
    • USADOUsed (data-only file, not charted)
  • entry into a bonded warehouse (IDA…) or a free zone (ZF01)not counted
    the car is counted when it leaves for consumption (IC09 / ZF2I) — never twice
  • temporary import, leasing, complementary fraction (IFC1)not counted
Powertrain

Since 2017 the international tariff nomenclature (HS 2017) splits cars by powertrain, and the declaration's tariff line (NCM, eight digits) carries it.

Tariff subheading?
  • 8703.80 — electric motor onlyBEV
  • 8703.60 / 8703.70 — combustion + electric, chargeable from the gridPHEV
    range extenders included
  • 8703.40 / 8703.50 — combustion + electric, not chargeableHEV
    full and mild hybrids
  • 8703.21–.24 — spark ignition onlyPETROL
  • 8703.31–.33 — diesel onlyDIESEL
  • 8703.90 — otherOTHERS
Correct the declared line

The tariff line is what the importer declares. Within the electrified lines a few models are declared on the wrong one, and their description says so — a short table of explicit rules (each with its reason) moves them; petrol and diesel lines are never moved, only reported for review.

What does the description of an electrified line name?
  • e-POWER on the electric-only line (Nissan X-Trail)HEV
    a series hybrid without a plug — the petrol engine only charges the battery
  • REEV / PHEV / DM-i / plug-in on the electric-only or the hybrid linePHEV
  • HEV / hybrid on the electric-only lineHEV
  • anything elsethe declared line
Count

One declaration item is one car — the quantity column is unreliable for cars, so a quantity above one is believed only when the item's net weight is that of that many cars (at least 600 kg each). A chassis number (VIN) quoted twice in one month counts once.

Check against CADAM

CADAM, the distributors' chamber, publishes yearly electrified imports. BEV + PHEV + HEV together match within 2–6% every year 2021–2025, PHEV and HEV in 2025 within 0.5%. BEV is lower here (2025 — 698 vs 858) because the two count differently; going through every 2025 declaration on the electric-only line reconciles the two to a single car (698 + 82 + 68 + 9 = 857 vs 858).

A declaration on the electric-only line (8703.80) that CADAM counts as a BEV — what does this series do with it?
  • a new car released for consumptionBEV (698 in 2025)
  • Nissan X-Trail e-POWERHEV, not BEV (82 in 2025)
    a hybrid without a plug — CADAM's own brand table has Nissan at 13% of its BEVs
  • entry into a bonded warehouse or free zone (IDA3, ZF01, IT04)not counted on entry (68 in 2025)
    counted once, when it is released; a gross count takes it twice (15 Xiaomi into the free zone in 2025 and the same 15 out)
  • a used car (USADO)Used data file (9 in 2025)
Render

Each new or changed month re-renders the country. Shares are read from the CSV as column ÷ TOTAL and grouped into three curves. A generalized Weibull S-curve is fitted to the BEV and the ICE share, and the charts, the fitted parameters, the twelve-month totals and the uncertainty bands are rewritten.

Which curve does a CSV column count towards?
  • BEVBEV
  • PHEV or EREV (plug-in hybrids, range extenders)
    Does the source split plug-ins from other hybrids?
    • yesPHEV
    • no — one combined hybrid figure (parked in HEV)ICE
      the PHEV curve is left out, never drawn at zero
  • HEV or MHEV (full and mild hybrids — no plug)ICE
  • petrol, diesel, gas, flex-fuel, othersICE

Definitions & scope

AcquisitionFile — downloaded as a data file (XLSX / Parquet / ODS / zip)
Vehicle scopeImports for consumption of new cars (Whole) into Paraguay — counted when they clear customs, not when they are registered. Pickups and goods vehicles (NCM 87.04), golf carts, cars entering a bonded warehouse or free zone (counted when they leave it), temporary imports and leasing are in no variant.
HEV (full hybrids)BEV, PHEV and HEV are the tariff subheadings of HS 2017 (8703.80 electric only; 8703.60/.70 plug-in hybrids, range extenders included; 8703.40/.50 hybrids that cannot be charged from the grid). HEV therefore counts full AND mild hybrids.
Backfillfrom 2017-01, the first month of the HS 2017 nomenclature that splits cars by powertrain; the customs files reach back to 1997 but without a powertrain split
Authnone

Variants

Each variant is its own series with its own CSV. Not every variant is charted in the gallery — the CSV is the authoritative record either way.

VariantWhat it countsHeldRaw data
WholeNew cars imported for consumption — NCM heading 87.03 (cars, SUVs, MPVs ≈ EU M1) with the declaration's own state NUEVO.2017-01 – 2026-10
118 rows
data/Paraguay.csv

History we hold

Every bar is the span actually present in our stored CSV — breaks in a bar are real gaps in the series, not rendering. Cadence is shown on the right.

20182020202220242026WholeWhole: 2017-01 → 2026-10monthly

Whole 2017-01–2026-10 (118 rows).

Which fuel columns this source fills

A blank column almost never means "no such cars" — it means this source does not split them out, and those vehicles are counted inside another column. Check the caveats for where they land.

BEVPHEVHEVPETROLDIESELOTHERS
Wholereportedreportedreportedreportedreportedreported

reported   column exists but is zero in every row   not reported by this source. Hover a cell for the row count.

Caveats