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Originally Posted by Warin
If you no longer need the carnet AND it is completed (all forms closed off) then you can return it to the carnet provider (and get your deposit money back).
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I did not get my 5000 euro carnet bond released by the AA, until the bike had actually returned to my home country, and I got the “Certificate of location” on the carnet stamped by the customs here. So it did not matter for the bond release, whether I had all entry and exit stamps on my carnet, the AA still wanted confirmation, that the bike is back home (don´t ask me, why I could not have left it somewhere in a non-carnet country, but this was the way it went).
It was a bit surprising for me, too, and became evident because it took a couple of months for my bike to arrive home by sea. This was in Finland, and in 2008. I am not sure, if all countries would be the same.
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