Date:         Mon, 19 Jun 2000 12:54:28 -0700
Reply-To:     Joel Cort <joel_cort@yahoo.com>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Joel Cort <joel_cort@yahoo.com>
Subject:      Re: Buying tires from Canada...
Comments: To: arbosch@ra.rockwell.com
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Tire desires...
I have contemplated getting my needed tires over the border in Canada
a while back and I was told the following:
Yeah it may be a bit cheaper to get them there, but apparently new
tires in Canada are marked with a color that the ass-toot border guys
are on the watch for.  If they catch you they will ask you to pay
duties or tax or just give you a hard time.
They may also find your 6 cases of "Upper Canadian Brewing Company"
beer you had stashed away.
Ok so you can just dring the beer and go take your Vanagon through
the mud and don't wash it off until you cross back you may get away
with it.

Joel
89 Syncro Westy
Rochester NY. very near Canada

--- Alan Bosch <arbosch@ra.rockwell.com> wrote:
> This is probably as illegal as all get out, but what about crossing
> the
> border and getting the tires put on the van and driving back
> across, with
> no declaration to customs?  Who's to know that the tires are new,
> thereby
> subjecting oneself to duty, import fees, etc., etc.
>
> Canadians seem to do similar things all the time, at least in this
> neck of
> the woods.  The Niagara Falls (NY) Outlet Center does a majority of
> it's
> business with Canadians.  Folks come down from the metro Toronto
> area, buy
> clothes and the like, take the tags off, throw out the bags, boxes,
> and
> tags, then stuff everything into a suitcase and recross back into
> Canada.
> Customs is none the wiser - or at the very least, turns a blind
> eye.
>
> I'm sure a tire retailer would not give a darn whether the MXT's
> are going
> on a bus with Provincial tags or US tags.  They get the sale -
> which is one
> more than if you never walked thru the door - and what happens
> after that
> is not their concern.
>
> Alan Bosch
> & Phred ('88 Wolfsburg)
> Rochester, NY


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