Custom clearance USA to Australia (German registered bikes)
Hi there :-)
we 2 girls on bikes riding through USA-Canada-Australia-New Zealand.
and here comes the question, we are kinda stuck with:
We shipped the bikes (registered in Germany) to Miami (without a Carnet, no problem), rode to LA and now we want to ship the bikes to Australia.
We found a shipping agency specialized in Exporting/Importing bikes from USA to Australia. So we want to ship our bikes in one of their containers.
The guy at the warehouse told us that he will need out titles of the bikes for customs clearance, that he will keep those and send them directly to Australia.
Since we do not have the titles with us (we do not want to sell the bikes), only the registrations and the Carnets, what do we actually need for custom clearance??
And can we give the shipping agency the Carnet for clearance? Or should we never ever give them out of our hands??
I called the US Customs at the port of LA but they were totally unfriendly and unhelpful and basically refused to talk to me because I am not an shipping agent.
Any help and insight is highly appreciated.
Nini :-)
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