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
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Last edited by demito; 20 Apr 2017 at 06:45.
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