Was wandering if anyone knows how long (if?) you can get a temporary import permit on a bike for Brazil? Not a permanent import, just temporary. Heard 3months and also 6months...?

My bike is in the UK so it would be shipped down, either direct to the north east Brazil (Natal hopefully!) or might have to go via a neighbouring country. I’m living in Brazil and travel out/in a lot so use a tourist visa. But my Girl has a temporary residence for Brazil (she’s Chilean) so was thinking about changing the registration UK docs into her name and then ship the bike into Brazil easier that way.

I know Brazilian bureaucracy is a right pain in the ass!

Cheers!

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We've been three times now the last 4 years. Always got 3 months on entering and could extend another 3 months. After that you have to stay outside 6 months. Law states you can only be in the country for up to 6 months in a year. As far as I know that concerns people [visa] and vehicles [customs]. We drive a car, but I guess that must be the same as for a bike?

How do you cope with the 6 months per year?

Adventurous greetings,
Coen

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Hi duck

As far I know, what was wrote above by Mailking is right and actual.
So, it would not be necessary - or even useless - the transfering of registration.

You may find more in Ken and Carol Duval's travel log:
Horizons Unlimited Motorcycle Travellers' Stories - Ken and Carol Duval in Uruguay/Brazil

Hugs!

i think it would be easyer to ship the bike to french guyana (its in the EU) and then ride across the border . i have crossed 2 brazilian borders in the north and it was easy but i herd it is a real pain to get a bike out of the ports. you could then leave the bike 6 month on each sise of the border

Thanks for the advice everyone!

As a foreigner riding the bike over the border (or imported via a port) then immigration and customs would give me like you said 3months with a maximum of 6months a year (I work on vessels and the last time I was in Brazil was late April, just about to get a flight back now so I spend a lot of time outside Brazil but have a second passport as backup).

Meet a couple from Chile who brought their car into Brazil for almost a year while they were working, has residence visas. So I’m thinking along the same lines with my girlfriend as she has a residence visa. I’ll ask some question locally when I’m back…will post up any info I get.

Nice one Kito about shipping to French Guyana, reckon that could be a goer…

Cheers all, time to time for this flight…

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Hey mate,
I shiped my bike from UK to SA 7 months ago for a trip, I´ve working with trading for 10 years in SA and tell you not to ship to Brazil, send your bike to somewhere else, there´s a list of the countries with less burocracy. I shiped to Buenos Aires and took a day to release the bike. Braz is pain in...
I used a company called james Cargo, they´re based just near to heatrow airport, they do a very good and reliable job and can even suggest someone to clear your bike when you arrive, but normally you can do it yourself.
About te permit for the bike, you get 3 months when you arrive in Brazil and after that you have to contact "receita federal" to extend the permit for 3 months more.
If u need any help I´ve friends in Buenos Aires that can help you.

All the best,
Rod

You have to enter on the road to brasil. This is the easy way. Take one of this ports: Uruguay, Chile, Argentina, Fr.Guyana.
Normally there is no register of vehicles in brasil. Don't ask for it on the frontier.

This would be a grave mistake and illegal. They will give you a temporary import document without problems. Otherwise risk impounding or heavy penalties trying to leave the country or at a road check.

Adventurous greetings,
Coen

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Hi Coen, thanks. In which cities do you have experience with this temporary import document? What is the name of this doc in port.?
I think, you know their rules better than themselve.
I am wondering, because i passed in Foz several times, never had problems. Never heard about this temp.imp.doc. I only know this doc from Argentina.

The document is from the Receita Federal, I don't know the official name, because I am not in Brazil right now and so I don't have it, because you have to give it back when you leave the country.

In Brazil I find is a strange country, sometimes a city coincides with a border and it is not a real closed of frontier. Like Chuy [with Argentina], Ponta Pora [with Paraguay] where you just can explore both sides of the border, without apparent problems and where you have to search for the offices of the border police and the customs. Or San Mathias [with Bolivia], Where you have to find the offices in Caceres some 80 km from the border. All international borders where normally the immigration office is [Policia Federal], you will find either next to it or near the customs where you will have to arrange your paperwork if you want to head in the country proper.

You are saying that you had visited Foz de Iguazu several times. I find that an exception. Officially those border patrolmen should process all vehicles, but knowing the vehicles will all get back to Argentina, they hardly press on for the paperwork. Might you be an Argentinean driving an Argentinean vehicle? Then maybe the case is very much different! And maybe there is some agreement between the two countries that I am not aware of so to let people living in the border area have free movement? But this wont be the case for foreigners, and that is what we are here discussing.

So please don't be sending off people with the wrong advice

Adventurous greetings,
Coen

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see
[url=http://www.receita.fazenda.gov.br/aduana/viajantes/viajantechegbrasilsaber.htm#Ve%C3%ADculos%20%28aut om%C3%B3veis] (portuguese)

"Aliens abroad on temporary travel to Brazil

a) vehicles used exclusively on border traffic by a foreigner residing abroad, is automatically considered under special temporary admission, provided it fulfills the necessary formalities for customs control on the unit customs jurisdiction over the site of entry of vehicles in the country;

b) vehicle for private use, exclusive of foreign tourists residing in Mercosur member country: the country can move freely without the need for any formalities, provided that the driver bearing the documentation required by applicable law to the traveler and the vehicle is carrying goods which, in quantity or characteristic, the person might commercial purpose, or that are inconsistent with the purposes of tourism (see art. 6.759/2009 of Decree 356));

c) Vehicle traveler residing in other countries, whatever the means of transport used, including the traveler himself driving the vehicle, the vehicle subject to the special regime of temporary admission, the time allowed for their stay in Brazil, through the form Simplified Import Declaration (DSI) (Annexes II to IV of SRF Normative Instruction No. 611/06)." - google transl.