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Thanks for your quick reply Chris. What a bummer. Seems like I have to get a carnet in a hurry. doh The bike is due to arrive next week.
Cheers Rob |
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We have shipped there a bike back in March from a fellow mate without the Carnet and this is the report he sent us: ……I finally picked it up yesterday from the airport. Everything was fine but I have to tell you that waiting for it to go through customs was tedious but of course necessary. So here is what happened: The bike arrived on Tuesday 19th March. I submitted paperwork to a clearing agent on Friday 22nd March for a temporary permit. I paid the agent for various fees around $250 and gave them the following copies: -Passport photo page -passport entry stamp page -bike registration -3 x valuations for the moto on letter headed paper from dealers in your home country -A deposit of roughly 20% of the highest valuation of the moto (you get this back when you export the bike but its a complicated process involving a clearing agent and of course fees) Your agent then arranges with customs to have the bike inspected by and then they clear the bike and you meet the agent at the airport to pick the bike up. Customs closes at 3.30pm during the week and they are not open at the weekends or public holidays. There was a public holiday on Thursday 21st March, I submitted paperwork on Friday 22nd March with all the fees to the agent (we just missed customs by 2 minutes in the afternoon) then we had the weekend. On Monday they processed the application and I got the bike on Tuesday. Not too bad.. Sometimes they inspect the bike and sometimes they dont need to. They didnt need to inspect the bike with me so that saved some time. Obviously having a carnet is much simpler. But being Greek on a Mexican motorbike very far away from your country makes life very difficult to try and get a carnet from anyone.... So I think Africa without a carnet is going to be an adventure to say the least….. |
It seems like flying or shipping in is very difficult. I know that if you cross in through a land border, you can easily get a temporary import.
As far as I'm aware of (and my information is from 2011), you only really need a carnet for Egypt and maybe Sudan. |
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