The last I heard about importing a car was that you could only import a car/SUV that was less than ten years old. It's the 2017 model year, so that would mean the car/SUV would have to be newer than 2007. Of course, rules and laws here always seem to change, so it might be different now, especially with the change of administration we had in January.

It doesn't seem to apply to pickup trucks, though, as they are deemed to be work vehicles and are not subject to the law.

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That has changed and I also know you can no longer ship with items inside the vehicle. I have gotten info on shipping from the port on that but once it gets to Guatemala border I have nobody to ask so I am hoping somebody has imported recently

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Forget it. I though I knew what I was doing and imported a car this year. I hired the oldest and biggest import company at the boarder and had a Guatemalan attorney, who used to work for SAT, with me. When the SAT boss insisted I put the car behind a 12" chain link fence guarded by soldiers with M16's I knew I was in trouble. I ended up paying more than 1/2 (in cash, they would not take a check) what I payed for the car as import fees to get it out and two days later when the attorney took the papers to get the Guatemalan plates they took the papers because the amount showing in the computer was 20% what I had paid. The car is in the country but without tags. I do not even have the import papers because the courts took them. Since the last president tried to get the central american countries together to legalize drugs ,the U.S. has worked to destroy the local economy by funded a wholesale witch hunt of Guatemalan bureaucrats calling the centuries old system of honorariums bribes. The result there are a lot of new bureaucrats that have no idea what they are doing or old ones scared to death and now charging outrageous tariffs or just stealing as much as the can since they are going to get fired anyway. It is no time to import anything into this country.

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