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Originally Posted by ta-rider
Hi,
You should lend/sell the bikes to someone who wants to ride them to Europa. I might be interesdet if you make me good offer. The friendly lady from the SA customs gave me (after my accedent etc) more time to sort out the paperwork and then even let me enter Namibia and export my bike via angola on by now expired Carned. This will work if you are friendly and talk to people. Ignoring does not work and will be expensive in your case.
Good luck, Tobi
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Another possible solution - but working out the paperwork again requires that waztafel get the bikes OUT of the country to a non-carnet country, AND get the carnet cleared, (difficult without returning the bikes home, but not impossible - contact your carnet issuer to check what they need as proof) OR trust that the new owner WILL get the bikes all the way to the Netherlands and not "lose" them somewhere along the way for whatever reason, legitimate or not.
And the new owner will then have to get a NEW carnet to travel north.
You MIGHT try travelling north on the original carnet, but that can be fraught, and is certainly illegal. If someone looks at the paperwork, and notices that the passport doesn't match the carnet, you're liable to end up in jail, accused of stealing the bike at the least. So not recommended.
It comes down to this - you must get the carnet cleared by getting the bike out of SA, or pay the import duties. IF indeed you can!
Waztafel, you might TRY to sort out paying the import duties, which will (or at least SHOULD) clear the carnet in SA, and you can then get the carnet fees back. And the new owners of the bike get to keep the bikes and you don't have to ship them back.
But you aren't going to get off without paying something!
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but there it is.
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