Govt to Extend Deadline for Used Car Imports Motorists on a Colossal Traffic Jam Along Busy Uhuru Highway in Nairobi Simon Kiragu Kenyans.co.ke The government wants to extend the deadline for used car imports from two years to five years as it gears towards promoting locally assembled vehicles. Treasury CS Ukur Yatani, on Monday, January 25, said that the government will phase out secondhand cars by 2026. The car dealers had up to 2023 to import secondhand vehicles in an earlier plan unveiled in 2019. The new proposal will offer them reprieve as they were to be out of business within two years. The industry rakes in approximately Ksh 60 billion annually.