Importing into Canada, help?
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Re: Importing into Canada, help?
Also, send a PM to this guy....username is "ssrsy". click below and click on "send a private message".
http://www.syty.net/forums/member.php?u=3390
He bought my Typhoon last winter and brought it to Toronto. I'm sure he could tell you what was needed as well.
-adam
Also, send a PM to this guy....username is "ssrsy". click below and click on "send a private message".
http://www.syty.net/forums/member.php?u=3390
He bought my Typhoon last winter and brought it to Toronto. I'm sure he could tell you what was needed as well.
-adam
Re: Importing into Canada, help?
You are importing a Typhoon, which is newer, so what I am about to explain might not work for you. This was my experience with importing and it was really easy:
I just imported my Syclone this year. I purchased it in January, but I had the dealer store it for me until March when it was officially 15 years old. The RIV has an exemption for vehicles older then 15 years. You can bring them across without having to go through the RIV at all. You still have to pay GST and A/C Excise Tax ($100). Your best bet is to cross at the Alberta Coots/Sweetgrass crossing and save yourself PST which will really add up!
You can tell when the truck was manufactured by looking inside the driver door at the PAS Inc. sticker. On there is the manufacture date. So long as you don't bring it across until the month after you will be fine.
Don't take cash with you to buy the truck! Take a bank draft and declare the draft at the border or customs if flying. If they find cash on you greater then $10k they will suspect you as a drug dealer and you will be in a world of hurt!
Remember that you have to clear the title on the American side _before_ you cross. You have to fax the bill of sale _and_ the title signed off to you both front and back 72 hours before you arrive at the border. This allows them to make sure that no American is owed anything for the vehicle. I pulled up to the Canadian side, explained the situation and they sent me over to the American side. They then stamp the title "Exported" and you go back to the Canadian side to fill out the forms and pay the taxes.
Keep the title in case you ever sell the truck to an American, it makes it easier to import back into the States.
When you get to the Canadian side you have to tell them that the vehicle is 15 years old and is exempt from the RIV. Do this before they fill out the form! otherwise they get cranky.
You can get a three day trip permit for the Canadian side so long as you have the bill of sale and insurance. On the American side you only need a drivers license to get a three day trip permit. You can pick both of these up before you get the vehicle. Make sure you check with your insurance company that the truck is covered while under a permit in the states. If you are getting it delivered to the border then you can skip some of the permit stuff.
When you get home you will have to perform an out of province inspection before you can register the vehicle. You get the form from the Registry office and take it to any registered mechanic. Fix anything that fails and get them to pass the inspection for you, or get the work done and take the failed inspection with receipts for the repairs back to the registry office.
Remember that you will have to add daytime running lights to the truck otherwise it will fail inspection. Daytime running lights are required in Canada for all vehicles manufactured after 1988. There is a gizmo that you can get that hooks up to the lights to run all of the time (a jumper or something) that you can then remove after the inspection. I went with the full deal because I like having the running lights.
If you go the RIV exemption route it will save you lots of money because you don't have to pay the RIV fees, get a vehcile Recall Clearance letter from GM or have an import inspection done at a Canadian Tire store on top of the out of province inspection!
If you do end up going through the RIV I would love to hear how it works. Most of what I said still applies whether you go through the RIV or not.
If you have any more questions let me know!
Good luck,
Paul
You are importing a Typhoon, which is newer, so what I am about to explain might not work for you. This was my experience with importing and it was really easy:
I just imported my Syclone this year. I purchased it in January, but I had the dealer store it for me until March when it was officially 15 years old. The RIV has an exemption for vehicles older then 15 years. You can bring them across without having to go through the RIV at all. You still have to pay GST and A/C Excise Tax ($100). Your best bet is to cross at the Alberta Coots/Sweetgrass crossing and save yourself PST which will really add up!
You can tell when the truck was manufactured by looking inside the driver door at the PAS Inc. sticker. On there is the manufacture date. So long as you don't bring it across until the month after you will be fine.
Don't take cash with you to buy the truck! Take a bank draft and declare the draft at the border or customs if flying. If they find cash on you greater then $10k they will suspect you as a drug dealer and you will be in a world of hurt!
Remember that you have to clear the title on the American side _before_ you cross. You have to fax the bill of sale _and_ the title signed off to you both front and back 72 hours before you arrive at the border. This allows them to make sure that no American is owed anything for the vehicle. I pulled up to the Canadian side, explained the situation and they sent me over to the American side. They then stamp the title "Exported" and you go back to the Canadian side to fill out the forms and pay the taxes.
Keep the title in case you ever sell the truck to an American, it makes it easier to import back into the States.
When you get to the Canadian side you have to tell them that the vehicle is 15 years old and is exempt from the RIV. Do this before they fill out the form! otherwise they get cranky.
You can get a three day trip permit for the Canadian side so long as you have the bill of sale and insurance. On the American side you only need a drivers license to get a three day trip permit. You can pick both of these up before you get the vehicle. Make sure you check with your insurance company that the truck is covered while under a permit in the states. If you are getting it delivered to the border then you can skip some of the permit stuff.
When you get home you will have to perform an out of province inspection before you can register the vehicle. You get the form from the Registry office and take it to any registered mechanic. Fix anything that fails and get them to pass the inspection for you, or get the work done and take the failed inspection with receipts for the repairs back to the registry office.
Remember that you will have to add daytime running lights to the truck otherwise it will fail inspection. Daytime running lights are required in Canada for all vehicles manufactured after 1988. There is a gizmo that you can get that hooks up to the lights to run all of the time (a jumper or something) that you can then remove after the inspection. I went with the full deal because I like having the running lights.
If you go the RIV exemption route it will save you lots of money because you don't have to pay the RIV fees, get a vehcile Recall Clearance letter from GM or have an import inspection done at a Canadian Tire store on top of the out of province inspection!
If you do end up going through the RIV I would love to hear how it works. Most of what I said still applies whether you go through the RIV or not.
If you have any more questions let me know!
Good luck,
Paul
Norm
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Re: Importing into Canada, help?
Depending on where he lives(outside Alberta) he will still have to pay the pst when he registers it. When I brought my truck back I paid the gst at the border and then the pst when I put plates on it. The girl at the insurance company wanted to put a black felt marker across the title I had.I grabbed it from her and said no way,it stays with the truck and I might want to give it to the next buyer.
Depending on where he lives(outside Alberta) he will still have to pay the pst when he registers it. When I brought my truck back I paid the gst at the border and then the pst when I put plates on it. The girl at the insurance company wanted to put a black felt marker across the title I had.I grabbed it from her and said no way,it stays with the truck and I might want to give it to the next buyer.
Syclone Rob
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Re: Importing into Canada, help?
I did not have to prove that PAS was out of business when I brought my Syclone across the boarder back in April of 2004. Just what was listed in the above post is all I had to do... RIV.... basically, it was a joke...
Here is a tip to save some money. If you buy your Sy or Ty privately, have him/her write up a receipt but do not put the sale price on it. When you get to the Canadian side, they will ask.. if you have any papers that say the price you paid for it. Once you say no, they will ask if you have a phone# of the seller so they can contact him/her to get the sale price, then charge you GST on the Canadian equivalent. If they can't get ahold of the seller, they just go by the kelly blue book (or what ever its called here) and the vin (which comes up as a s10). To make a story that is already long, short, On a syclone in mint shape with 22K miles on the odo, I could have paid GST on $3600CDN instead of $19500CDN just becauseI gave the damn phone number... Man that was an expensive phone call :rant:
I did not have to prove that PAS was out of business when I brought my Syclone across the boarder back in April of 2004. Just what was listed in the above post is all I had to do... RIV.... basically, it was a joke...
Here is a tip to save some money. If you buy your Sy or Ty privately, have him/her write up a receipt but do not put the sale price on it. When you get to the Canadian side, they will ask.. if you have any papers that say the price you paid for it. Once you say no, they will ask if you have a phone# of the seller so they can contact him/her to get the sale price, then charge you GST on the Canadian equivalent. If they can't get ahold of the seller, they just go by the kelly blue book (or what ever its called here) and the vin (which comes up as a s10). To make a story that is already long, short, On a syclone in mint shape with 22K miles on the odo, I could have paid GST on $3600CDN instead of $19500CDN just becauseI gave the damn phone number... Man that was an expensive phone call :rant: