My shipment of parts are held up by customs

[Mervifwdc]

I've a shipment of parts for my Mog held up by customs / UPS. Has anyone managed to get spare parts sent into Argentina in the last year or so? Any magic spells or stories that I need to know?

:-(

[BCK_973]

Could you tell a bit more wich parts are we talking about?And what do you mean with held?
Shipped with with UPS? or USPS?
Karl

[Mervifwdc]

It's a complete 2nd hand wheel hub (including the portal lower gear and bearings). The hub is 2nd hand, the bearings are new.

It was being shipped with UPS, and got stopped in BA.

This is the email I got from UPS:

Por medio de la presente informamos el arribo de un envío amparado en la guía de referencia proveniente de WORLDWIDE PARCEL SERVICES LTD. El mismo vino consignado a HOSTEL- CAMPING LA COLINA a la dirección DARWIN 1400 ESQUEL, CHUBUT pero no hemos podido concretar la entrega porque el envío quedo retenido del servicio puerta a puerta y debe realizar un despacho formal para poder liberarlo de aduana. Le pedimos que se comunique con nosotros al 0800 2222 877 para que le digamos que opciones tiene para poder realizar el despacho foraml

My spanish is pretty bad, so my campsite owner has been responding to the emails, but it's now down to looking for dimensions of the balls in the ball bearings, and the sizes and materials they are made from. I thought that was getting more than a little odd, so thought I'd ask here what the story was.

Merv.

[Manolito]

The only reason I see for keeping your order, is that is U$S999 or more.

I bought a lot of stuff from the US and never had a problem. Usually you have to pay 50% of the total value.

[xfiltrate]

We are in Buenos Aires, if we can help you Mervifwdc just private message, sorry you are having difficulties.

Over the years I have heard of second hand motorcycle parts being
delayed or confiscated by customs. There have been several reasons
given. - Payment of import tariff, storage and handling fees to customs,
and/or a possible general prohibition of the importation of second hand parts.

Prohibition was supposed to effect marketing of stolen bike parts.

I do not know if there really is a law forbidding the import of second hand parts or not, but I know others who have had parts confiscated - but unsure if the reason was failure to pay customs or import prohibition???

This situation comes up frequently so if anyone can shed some light with the facts it would be most helpful.

xfiltrate

[Mervifwdc]

PM sent!

The order value on the documentation is £250 stg.....

[BCK_973]

Manolito
AFIP allways keeps in ADUANA all pakages that need to pay taxes.The minimum ammount of value is 25 dollars.Not 999......
In order to inform in a propper way.If there is an invoice inside customs determine the tax on it.its 21% VAT and 30% of shipping.Many times just by talking to the custom agent you get the parcell for free.

Originally Posted by Manolito

The only reason I see for keeping your order, is that is U$S999 or more.

I bought a lot of stuff from the US and never had a problem. Usually you have to pay 50% of the total value.

[Mervifwdc]

In the emails with them, we've made it as clear as e could the parts are for a tourist (Me!)

This is the latest response.

Luis, te comento que la única descripción que tiene UPS es la declarada en la factura pro forma, y declararon Unimog spare used parts

Por lo que necesitamos que por favor nos envíen bien detallado que son estos repuestos, si son cojinetes con o sin rodamientos incorporados, para que son los cojinetes, que función cumplen, el diámetro y el material, sin nos pueden enviar un folleto o un catalogo del los mismos a fin de poder clasificarlos correctamente y anali z ar si requieren de alguna intervención

También les informo que para proceder a la liberación se va a necesitar tramitar un despacho formal ante la aduana, y se necesita de licencia de importador, y dicha licencia queda sujeta a que el propietario de la licencia apruebe la operación dado el tipo de mercadería, por esto es importante que nos envíen bien una descripción amplia de la mercadería


And I think it means they need detailed descriptions of each bearing, including what kind of metal its made from? or my translation sucks :-)