Date:         Tue, 9 Feb 1999 03:04:41 EST
Reply-To:     JordanVw@AOL.COM
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From:         JordanVw@AOL.COM
Subject:      vanagon Double Cabs
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My best double cab I got up in Winnepeg, which gets so cold, that they
don't put salt on the roads, and its very clean,  also it was garaged
through the winters.  I paid (I think), $7500 US fo it.  I had to get a
letter of certification from VW in Michigan, and send it to DOT to have it
stamped.  Then, when you declare it at the border, you have to pay duty on
it.  Depending on how they classify it, the duty is either 3% of the price,
or 25% of the price.  Yes, if the border guard says its a truck, and not a
passenger vehicle, the duty is 25% of the price you paid for it.  Its the
so called "Chicken Tariffs" designed to keep German trucks from competing
with the US makers like GM and FORD, and is still in effect.  That's why
you don't see the German trucks in the US.  Luckily, I was able to convince
them that it isn't a truck, and I paid 3% duty on it.

Charles