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What's required to import from Canada 200

posted by  Ken C on  Sat Jun 7 04:33 CST 2003
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Hi, all.
I just read a message just a few spots farther down on this list (about having a car in the US that was originally built for the Canadian market) surprising -- I thought that the statute for Americans to import cars (i.e., without a LOT of expensive conversions) ended in 1986, and now it is prohibitively expensive (change bumpers, door side-impact reinforcements, etc., as well as notorious emission control retrofitting, all requiring contracting a certified importer) to bring such a later-model foreign car into this country.
Sometimes I see ads for a car in Canada I'd like to buy but never consider it because of the hassle I'm expecting.
So what's the true story, particularly about bring cars down from Canada?
Thanks.





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