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The Penderites
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Posted: Tue Sep 22nd, 2009 09:22 pm |
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My husband and I are Canadian and will be travelling to our home in San Carlos this Fall with our RV and towing a trailer with personal items...furniture, tools for personal use, sporting equipment (kayaks, bikes), small kitchen appliances, clothes etc. It will all be used. We have both had our FM3s for more than 6 months, so we are aware that we will have to put a monetary amount on our items and pay 17% on that amount. We have been getting different opinions from the Canadian Mexican consulate, a custom broker and several individuals. Any personal experiences regarding similar situations heading through the border would be much appreciated. In particular, are items in the RV considered to be an issue as far as having to be itemized and paid tax on and have you come across any types of items (ie. wooden furniture or tools) that were not permitted at all. Many thanks.....
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bartmanaz
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Posted: Wed Sep 23rd, 2009 01:40 am |
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Reasonable amounts of tools, personal items and clothing and the sporting goods are fine. Furniture items are probably all you need be concerned with and pay duty on.
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Posted: Wed Sep 23rd, 2009 02:50 am |
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I don't know the details but if you have an FM3 you can get a 1 time exemption from dutes for household goods. Someone else on the board can probably give you the details. If you do use this exemption and again I don't know if this would work but try to put in on a single FM3 so that in the future you could use the other FM3 to do it again.
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GringoinSonora
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Posted: Thu Sep 24th, 2009 07:53 pm |
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I brought six pickup loads of similar stuff, all used, all old, all my personal and household possessions.
I crossed at Nogales, downtown, three times until it got too scary driving through Nogales, MX. Then three times at Mariposa. I never auto-declared. I got three green lights and three red lights, sometimes at the border and sometimes at Km21.
The Mexican officials were never interested at all in my crap. Even though some of it was nice crap, like a near new Sony home entertainment system.
You never know which one is going to take exception, but in all my crossings and all the red lights and "revisions" I've had, I've never paid a penny. Sometimes I come back from Costco in Tucson with six huge bottles of Jack Daniels and all kinds of steaks, etc. I always figured since Sonora is a beef producing area they might take exception to $300 worth of ribeyes, but they never have.
It seems to me they are looking for people who are bringing in new items for resale in Mexico. Unless you have a load of new TVs, or new DVD players, or something like that, I don't think they are going to care.
If I were you, I would just take my chances with the green/red light thingy. Although, I do think your caravan might catch some attention and you will get a red light.
Just tell them it is your personal living stuff. I don't know if there are penalties for not auto-declaring. I just know there never have been for me.
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