GringitoLoco
1/21/2015 11:44 EST
Hi all, I'm planning a relocation from NJ, USA to Cordoba, Argentina early this year.. I need to ship my 2007 Jeep Rubicon (heavily outfitted) to Buenos Aires and and looking for any advice on shipping.
I am getting married to an Argentine in 2015 and was I was advised that because this is an election year it probably wouldn't take too long to get my DNI (but that's besides the point, I'm moving anyway).
I also need to bring with me a number of personal items; small electronics, clothes, but most importantly my welder, power tools, and lots of steel hand tools. I am aware of the power and frequency conversions.
Does anyone have any tips, recommendations, preferred shippers, etc? I can not chance a shady company doing this, leaving me scrambling for bribe money or stolen items.
Thanks all! -JPL
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Eposternak
1/21/2015 12:31 EST
You do not have rigths to import anything to Argentina, if you ate not an argentinian citizen, coming back to Argentina.
You better get an american girlfriend and stay there
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GringitoLoco
1/21/2015 12:41 EST
Wow, Eposternak. I was reading through your other posts on this forum; you *may* be from Argentina, and you clearly have your own personal biases and issues with the government, but from everything I've read; everyone I've spoken to, including my WONDERFUL Argentinian girlfriend (who spoke with customs, BTW), you are dead wrong. I apoke with the Argentine Embassy here in the USA.. You're absolutely wrong.
Here's my opinion; if you're just going to be biased and hateful to the country, that's fine, that's your right, but it's not what people seeking an honest response is looking for. "You better get an american girlfriend and stay there"? Are you serious? Wow, guy. Wow. I'll say a prayer for you.
Does anybody else have anything constructive to add?
Thank you for thoughtful and respectful responses.
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TomP
1/21/2015 13:31 EST
I have heard a dozen horror stories regarding attempting to bring an auto and items from the US especially if brought in through Buenos Aires where red tape and corruption reign.
The only time I ever heard an American say to me he had no problem bringing a car and items over was because his wife was .. Argentine. So marry your Argentine girlfriend and then ship the goods.
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Eposternak
1/21/2015 20:06 EST
Foreigners are not allow to import cars exempted ot taxes, you haye, Import, Internos, Luxury plus 21% Iva.
Either you are argentinian, do not try.
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elhombresinnombre
1/23/2015 05:25 EST
I agree with TomP. (And strangely enough, with Eposternak too!) Whilst you are a foreigner you are -well- a foreigner unless you already have permanent residency of course.
After you marry, you have the right to apply for permanent residency and/or citizenship. As I understand it, as a new permanent resident you have a six-month window of opportunity to bring in your personal posessions, cars etc. Your wife, as she then will be can take the lead in this but you will need to hire a middle man - I think he is called a despachante de aduanas - to handle it for you. You won't be paying the bribes - he will - and he'll bill you for them. Items will still get stolen.
Most people in my experience don't think it is worth the bother, the expense and the heartache. Ask yourself honestly: wouldn't your Jeep look far better sitting proudly on your best friend's driveway back in the USA than rusted from months of salt water and neglect in a shipping container? (Oh, and all the nice accessories, gone?)
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RussellO
2/17/2015 12:49 EST
Base on my experience 27 years in Latin America you will not have to scrambling for bribe money or stolen items until your things are in the aduana that's where problem begins. The shipper is a private enterprise business and it depends on good service to stay in business where as the government, Well you get the idea. Remember your talent is no better than the local businessman. And that is all the see when it comes to buying a service. Take some clothes and a toothbrush everything else you can acquire there. This is just one mans opnion, I could be wrong.
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TomP
2/17/2015 12:55 EST
Russell makes a very good point. I have heard of stories where the process (getting a vehicle into Argentina) took so long and the fines, bribes etc. so expensive the people who shipped the vehicle said to Customs, "Keep it".
The only time I have heard of shipping a vehicle to Argentina by a Foreigner going smoothly is when one of the spouses is ARGENTINE.
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