Avoid import duties for spares with carnet/TIP
 

Hi,

just a piece of advice, dunno if anyone posted this tip here. I used it in Dakar and now again in Pointe Noire.

When shipping spares/tyres and dealing with customs, take your Carnet de Passage with you (according to the post below by Tony LEE, TIP should work as well). Explain you are traveling by bike to different countries and explain the parts are for bike repair on the road. Insist on not paying import duties.

Loads of people were complainig that the import duties exceeded the value of the goods. Not so for us:

Apart from all sorts of small administrative amounts, airport tax and storage costs, I did not pay custom duties at all. 45000 CFA (about 63€) is not too bad for a package worth more than 900€.

Good luck all

Tom

Motorbike adventure travel, around the world • MotoMorgana

This condition is part of the Vienna Convention on road traffic and should apply if entered under a TVIP as well. Only requirement is that the replaced parts have to be taken out of the country when you leave

Great to know, Tom. This wouldn't have occurred to me!

Was just catching up on your blog this morning over a coffee. Thanks for putting so much effort into sharing it with us.

Dave


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Hi All,
I have also used this tip with good results. However, one particularly crafty official in Ethiopia noted that the replacement part (in this case, parts for a shock rebuild) would be used in country, as the bike had to make it to the border with the new parts already installed. Therefore it was not an item for immediate export.

As we weren't expecting this quite clever response we paid up, thankfully not much.

Forewarned is fore-armed...
CJ.