If someone in the UK was to import an item and then fail. And refuse to pay the duty on that item then they too could be imprisoned. Your position is not unique to you. When you applied for residency you made it reasonable for the Ecuadorean authorities to assume that you were intending to live there as a resident hence the expectation that you would regularise the motorcycle’s tax status.
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You will have to do without pocket handkerchiefs, and a great many other things, before we reach our journey's end, Bilbo Baggins. You were born to the rolling hills and little rivers of the Shire, but home is now behind you. The world is ahead.
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