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Buy a bike in Argentina

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I agree completely that one should not act illegally.

I believe that it's legal to go to a border where the owner takes the bike out of the country and cancels the TVIP, then sells the bike to someone, who then enters one of the two countries at the border, taking out a new TVIP in the new owner's name.

Now, if the sale cannot be completed for some reason, this will not work, however for a UK-registered bike, where the transfer is done online, it will.

Please correct me if my understanding is wrong.
The advice was to buy a bike in Buenos Aires.
To find a good selectione of bikes.

To buy a UK registred bike in an area between Argentina and another country, is another case.
I was refering to laws in Argentina.
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The advice was to buy a bike in Buenos Aires.
To find a good selectione of bikes.

To buy a UK registred bike in an area between Argentina and another country, is another case.
I was refering to laws in Argentina.
Good clarification, I was unclear. The situation with an Argentine bike is as you and xflitrate note.

If a bike is registered in the UK (or indeed in a number of other countries) then it will (or should) be in Argentina on a TVIP or CdP. Ownership can be transferred, but the conditions of the TVIP/CdP must be fulfilled, so the bike must leave Argentina, ownership be transferred, and the bike can then enter another country on a new TVIP/CdP taken out by the new owner.
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I am planning to sell my US plated bike (KTM 390 Adventure 23) somewhere in Argentina. I found aa entry about Punta Arenas and its Free Zone. The post is from 2016 on advrider (https://www.advrider.com/f/threads/b...#post-28598264)

Does anyone know if its a good idea to do it in Punta Arenas or maybe its not needed. In some other entry I read that the customs at Punta Arenas declined any help with transferring the TIP.

Does anyone has done a TIP transfer in Argentina or Chile? I plan to be close to Ushuaia by Jan-Feb 2025

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I am planning to sell my US plated bike (KTM 390 Adventure 23) somewhere in Argentina. I found aa entry about Punta Arenas and its Free Zone. The post is from 2016 on advrider (https://www.advrider.com/f/threads/b...#post-28598264)

Does anyone know if its a good idea to do it in Punta Arenas or maybe its not needed. In some other entry I read that the customs at Punta Arenas declined any help with transferring the TIP.

Does anyone has done a TIP transfer in Argentina or Chile? I plan to be close to Ushuaia by Jan-Feb 2025

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Haven't done this, so I may be clueless (we travel on CdP). However...

- Punta Arenas is in Chile not Argentina.
- I believe that to close out your TIP you have to leave the country - close out the TIP, and the buyer then enters the next country and applies for a TIP (although could also travel on a CdP). If planning to go to Punta Arenas from Argentina, and if you find a buyer for the bike, then the simple way to handle this is to do the transfer at the border between Argentina and Chile.
- If entering a Zona Franca is considered leaving country then I guess that it may be possible to transfer ownership there, however the customs people will be focussed on the duty-free aspect and may not have any idea how to handle closing out a TIP (and issuing a new one).
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