Hi Sukhoi:

Welcome to the HUBB community.

Air Canada runs a motorcycle shipping program. It might be easier and less expensive to ship the moto via Air Canada out of Toronto or Montreal instead of shipping it from the USA. The motorcycle does not need to be crated, just ride up to the airport and arrive with less than 1/4 of a tank of fuel.

BUT....

What happens once a "new motorcycle in a crate" arrives in another country depends on what your citizenship is and where your residence is.

Almost all first-world countries (Australia being an exception) allow bona fide tourists to temporarily import their vehicle (car, motorcycle, camper, whatever) for the purpose of driving around as tourists. No duties or taxes are charged - you get to temporarily import the vehicle on the understanding that once your tourist visit is finished, you will drive out of the country in the vehicle or, in the case of a motorcycle, air-freight the motorcycle to another continent. Generally speaking, for European countries, the process is as simple as entering Canada from the USA in your vehicle would be.

If a brand new, not plated motorcycle arrives in a crate, it obviously won't be your tourist vehicle - you can't drive it, it doesn't have a license plate on it. Hence customs of whatever country you plan to ship it to will look at it as a permanent importation of taxable and dutiable goods. That means, amongst other things, paying duties and taxes on the full value of the bike. Many countries won't allow you to import a new motor vehicle if the vehicle doesn't comply with the technical standards of the country - and a USA specification motorcycle won't comply with any European country standards, even if an apparently identical model is sold in the country you plan to import it to.

Bottom Line: Put a license plate on it from your home base, ride it a bit so that it is not "brand new" (meaning, 1 mile on the odometer), then go to the sections of this forum that deal with shipping bikes, trip paperwork, and foreign country insurance and do some research in those forums.

Michael