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Shipping, Port Clearing, and Registering Your Self Imported Car - EP.32
Shipping, Port Clearing, and Registering Your Self Imported Car - EP.32
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About this episode
Navigating the complexities of shipping and registering a self-imported car can be daunting, but this episode breaks it down into manageable steps. Bobby and Aaron share their firsthand experience importing a GTT from Japan, detailing the shipping costs, port clearing process, and the paperwork involved. They discuss the importance of having a reliable broker and provide insights into the customs and registration hurdles they faced. With humor and relatable anecdotes, they demystify the process, making it feel less intimidating for potential importers.
Topics:
shipping costs
port clearing process
customs paperwork
broker recommendations
registration hurdles
importing advice
self-importing experiences
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Honda Civic
In this episode we go over Shipping, Port Clearing, and Registering Your Self Imported Car.
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All rightHey and welcome back to right-hand drive guys today is episode 3232 yeah, that's wild and I'm Bobby. This is Aaron. Yeah, and this is gonna be part two of our
You know bringing in the GTT in what it took and the whole process right and so if you listen to part oneThen you kind of heard the processWhile the car was in Japan. Yeah, while you know working with Trevor and getting through everything right
I haven't talked to people, you know like and just figuring out where the car goes from where and yeahThat whole process works. Yeah, so in today's episode
We're gonna kind of give you more of the shipping and then port clearing side of thingsThe scary part. Yeah, which is really what most people in my
Experience are intimidated by is like well what happens after it gets off the boat like what am I gonna have to do?
You know, and I guess I would say I was the same way because it wasvery intimidating but in the end of it we were like that's itRight, right, rightSo it's built up in your head like this huge thing because obviously you're not going to pour it every day to get your package that you're gettingYou know what I mean? It's just one of those things so
Yeah, after you deal with itIt's a lot. Yeah, most motor so
Just to kind of take you back to the beginning soCome June car was ready to ship it was legal to ship soTrevor wentGot it from stacked got it brought over to the portAnd so at that point he was able to give me the quote on shipping and so you know in my headI was like well shipping a car from you know, California to Maine's like two thousand dollars. Yeah shipping a car from Japan to
New York has to be five thousand dollars. Yeah, right like how does this even make sense?
You knowBut it turns out it was actually$1800 which was that yeah, I was like really am I that's it considering yeah, it's a car on a yeahYeah, it's a whole car. Yeah, I know my is that just for the seats like right right right right but no
So it was $1800 and of course I was like all right like let's do itYeah, and so if you did listen to the last episode you'd hear that my major gripe was having to wire moneyYeah, I had to go wire anotherForth time right right shipping money. You're paying cuz like dude. No, absolutely like what is going on?
What is it? Are you are you being held hostage? Yeah, what's going on? Is this ransom money? Are you funding al Qaeda? Yeah?
It's like no dude listen, it's a car. Yeah, it's just one of those things
I wish that I could have paid it all at once, but that's just not how it went so yeahI paid the 1800 so at this point IHave to have somebody help me out on my side of things in the US. Yeah, that is going to
work with Trevor work with me work withCustoms and everybody over here, right andYou know Trevor being the awesome guy that he is he said hey, you're gonna useBecky over at Soundbrokeridge and take care of you I guarantee it's flawless. I'm like yeah, all right cool like
If no arguments there. Yeah, that dude says it's legit then like yeah, I if hey if it's not
Yeah, so so that was a thing I had seen otherPlaces that do it and you know, I've heard of like another handful that you could use and sound brokerageWhich is who Becky works for was one of the ones that was really good? Yeah, so yeah
And that's that's one person I believe that I have seen on the groups mentioned as wellWhenever you just said that kind of oh, yeah, I remember reading that on those import groups on FacebookYeah, and because this is like a calming question the people ask all the time all the time and likeBecause it is a something I'm thinking it's scary. It's like well what happens if I mess this up?
They're they gonna just throw the car back in the water like what's gonna happen?
Do they send it back is it turned to send there's like yeah, like what's gonna happen to my car right? Yeah, I think I'm gonna crush it on spot like right
So it is a very worrisome thing andSo I'm here to tell you really don't worry at all because it's really not bad and so I'm gonna go throughJust the paperwork that Becky had me fill out and just to kind of get and then the paperworkI didn't have to fill out that she handled just so you guys understand what it actually takesTo make this happen and soWhat happens is is when it does get on the boat then Trevor sends you aThis clear nice clear little folder full of stuff that you're gonna need so
He sends us things like our exports certificate in JapaneseSo that's an original and then the converted export certificateWhich is yeah, yeah, it's kind of like a the title in a sense, right?
You know, it's very great a stoner and that's the EnglishYou knowTranslation for it so that when we go to register at its coolThree copies of the bill of lading which is pretty much thereceipt for the car going on to theThe cargo ship yeah, so you get an original and then two duplicates of that and it's coolIt's on this weird longer paper. That's really snog. It's actually the same paper
So and then he also sends you aBill of sale which you will need to register the car and get it through customs anywaysSo nice little bill of sale with the Kizzo stamp on itAnd so I believe that is the end of what Trevor sends with the car manHe didn't hook you up on the sale price for taxes, broIt don't work like that Japanese are very honest and they're not willing to skimp on anything so that you can save a few bucks
No, that's totally understandable. That's legit, you know
So that was so pretty much bill of sale bill of lading andExporcer certificate is what he is going to send you for the car. Yeah, and so
now it's time like whenBecky starts working with you. She's gonna send you some packets and she's gonna need something called an ISF form and it's
It's an importer or shippers letter of instruction and so this is something that you have to fill out about the carAnd it's really pretty basic, you know, it's just got my name and address andKizzo's you know name and address and what the vehicle is in the bill of lading number and so that's a pretty simple one to fill out thatBecky's gonna give youThere's a declaration for DOT and this is whatTells the people at the port that this car is in fact 25 years older and exempt and so I have to fill out this form because I am
Technically the registered importer at this point when you do it yourself you become a registered importer andSo I needed to fill this out so that it's likeI don't know what would you call that likeSo it's official so to speak you know filled out by the importer, you know like she couldn't fill this out for meAnd so you just have to check off the this vehicle is 25 or more years old and it is exempt from theFederal motor vehicle safety standards. Yeah, so pretty simple pretty easy one
Next up is an EPA form which is pretty much the same. You're just filling out the info about
The vehicle and yourself being the importerYeah, it's a declaration form. Well sketched out when I see the APA, but that was that was easy
That was easy stuff to fill out. It's really just your name and and your address and whatnot. It's really really pretty simple
So beyond thatOnce those were the two forms I had to fill out Becky kind of handled everything elseYeah, and so beyond that what happens is once the car landsThey give you Becky will send you a payment receipt and an entrySummary and arrival notice and soYou know the receipts the receipt, but these are the entry summary summary and arrival notice
Yeah, and so basically this is what you you have to bring everythingBut this is what they want to see at the port that it's arrival notice from your shipper with your info andExactly what was on it and so you know, it's all prettyPretty simple so and you get that as it leaves right you get this when it arrives. Oh, oh, oh you get that when it arrives
Yeah, I get this from back. I want it comes. Yeah, I got you. I got you
So those are the the things that she's going to send youAnd then at that pointIt was pretty much okay. I got all the paperwork
Right the car is in the United States. It's in Newark. Right. She hit me up it it landed on
97 at 10 45 AMYeah, no, that's what time we arrived. Sorry it arrived on 9 4
Okay, yep, so three days three days and then we were there sobasically at this pointShe gives you all the paperwork. They are releasing it to you and you can go get it at the port. Yeah, so
To this point I've filled out three pieces of paper. Yeah, that's it
I've written I've written my name and address on three pieces of paperThat is it. I haven't had to
Struggle I haven't had to sit on the phone for three hours on hold like I literally have not had to do anything but fill out three papersBecky from Soundbrook Ridge has handled the rest damn that's dopeThat's yeah, it was cool and soso all in allOn my receipt I have a2400 dollar bill and that includesQuite a bit of stuff. I think I thought I had like an itemized part somewhere here that I can't seem to find but
this includedLike all customs fees brokerage fees. Yep
The port fee everything like that so all in all 2400 bucks to have it brought in hereRight on top of the shipping on top of the shipping after shipping 2400 bucks and then you're good. It's released. Yeah, so
I'm cool with that. I mean I get it right. I wouldn't have really expected
Less to be able to bring a car into this country so to speak so would that be less if the car was a lesser valueProbably was based on value. I would assume so if you're bringing in like a K truck or yeah
I think you probably pay less and I wish I did have that itemizedReceive with me. I apologize on that but yes, I do believe that you would have been probably cheaper depending on
You know what you're actually getting like yeah because obviously with the price I pay for this there's a percentage there. Yeah, yeah, so
That's sick. I mean that doesn't seem like much though. I mean like
Yeah, it's the fee on top of everything else but as far as like your work involvedIt's not that bad like you said it was just your name and address on a few pieces of paper thatHas the line that says name and addressYeah, it was easy. It's like filling out anything. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, so that's crazy. That's like simple. Yeah, it was another one of those like
That's it. Yeah, I was like really am I what else what else what else she's like now you're good. No, you're good alone chill
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeahandSo you know, I feel like that was a really easy part. Yeah
And then it obviously came time to go to port. Yeah
For us the closest port that makes sense was New York Newark. Yeah, and
It's about a six hour drive from here depending on traffic, right? We tried to hit it as best we could
So we went down and you're going down to the port literally so likeWide open spaces train tracks like a bunch of yeah like BobtailLike trailer trucks like just going around just speed everything yeahAnd you're just like holy crap like this is the real deal and is right next to an airport as wellYeah, it's right next to Newark which makes sense because stuff's coming off going on yeah and so very busy place
Yeah, we went down and basicallythe port like offices on the corner of two different streets andThere's like just all these pull off some the street beside it. Yeah, so we find a place and we pull off on the truck and trailer
Park it there. Yeah
Kind of close to the to where you come in and out of the gate as well. Yeah, yeah, it wasn't it's not like we hit
We're in this long long queue or anything either. I was kind of surprised of that. It was like
We pretty much action. Yeah, yeah, yeah, not that much going on at what 10 45
45 a.m. Yeah on her birthday. Yeah, so
Yeah, I mean it was so we park it we go walk over and first we walk right in the office and likeAre you new here? Yeah?
Yeah, you got to check in with security. I'm like, okay, no problem, but he's not out there. Yeah, yeah, because we did
We did try you yeah, I walked right into the security office. Yeah, I mean
But it turns out he's in there shooting the shit with them right right right we got to go out there and wait for himSo we go out there and wait and I give him the paperwork and he's like all right. He's like he's like so what are you doing?
He's like yeah, what are you guys doing or what are you doing? And I'm like I'm picking up a car and he's like
Okay, who's he? Yeah, yeah, yeah, this is like my partner. We're here to pick up a car
He's like no, you're here to pick up a car. He's here to wait and I'm just like
Okay, so way to aggressiveAbsolutely not he yeah, you're here to pick up a car. Yeah, he's here to do nothing. Yeah
My poor this is my poorAnd it was just like it was weird because it's likeSo what you're actually trying to say is I apologize gentlemen, but only one person at a time can enter the portYeah, that what you're trying to say dudeBut you know that was the biggest hiccup that we had was that guy being rightYou know a little and he was pissed off because your papers were stapled together. Oh, yeah, he's like who the hell is stable these papers together?
I don't know somebody was a stapler. I don't know dude, you know, like what's a big deal, but so what you know whatever he cooled down and we
We were able to get me over there. You you pretty much after him you go inside. Yeah
You have to pay a $35 fee to talk to themWhat that was like it was a $35 fee to deal with them. Yeah, and so I'm like okay, whatever you have to pay it on this special
websiteBut then after that it's pretty much like all right cool somebody will escort you over the car. Yeah, and I'm like
Really that's it you like looked at my papers and now I get to the car. Yeah, like really? Okay cool
So guy walks me over like doesn't talk to me the whole time like just walks me overHe's I'm like oh there it is right there. He like keeps walking like I don't know which car is mine
Stops back tracks. He says yeah, this is the car right here, and I'm like it is okay cool
Yeah, I like it, but you know and so he's just like all right walks off like literally guy just had to walk me150 feetThen just how is it yeah, it was right on the other side of what you couldn't seeDude, that's why right there. Yeah, I was so surprised what keys in it. Oh yeah ready to wrap. Well not really because the battery was
Dead as a door knobWhatever. Yeah, dude, whatever that means dude
Like yeah, it was dead. Yeah, so what's we kind of knew yeah, I figured so
You brought my jump pack I brought yourI was like I brought mine out and for whatever reason I don't know it justWould not give that thing power likeI tried every which way right but things never laid down. Yeah, I know and so I
Come back out. I'm like hey dude. I need you to get the the thing. Yeah, and I'm like oh man
We didn't charge it on the way down and I'm always sketched out because it's a smaller when I'm like it's got to have a full chargeTo jump a car because that's what it takes to jump mine on it at least and I only get one jump with itSo it's wild right soYeah, I ran and ran back to the truck got itBrought it back and I was likeHope it works. Yeah, meanwhile security guy came back to me and goes is there a problem
Yeah, because I'm standing there waiting for you is like is there a problem and I'm likeNo, just waiting on a jump pack, you know like sorryLike sorry to stand in your space. You know what first the staples now first the buddy then the stapler now the jump pack
Are you kidding me? Are you serious is this your first day at port button? This is your last morning. Yeah
Yeah, that's right number three you're almost out bud and so his his jump pack started it literallyImmediately like it's the car started right up. Yeah, you came right around the corner not too long after and I was like wow
That thing really worked on that yeah like sick. All right cool. We're this is it is it. Yeah, you hop out walk over to me and
That was it right. I was like is it I had to give him a piece of paper in which he verifies where I signed and where the
The like handler guy who brought me over there signs and then he was like see youThat's yeah get the hell out of my port. Yeah, yeah, he's got to get that thing off my fucking property
So we get it loaded upYou know and yeah, there's like probably two to three other guys loading up stuff there too. Yeah, yeah, they had like yeah
There was a person with like a random civic sedan likeYeah, just in a K truck like what who's even who bought that?
Yeah, where's this go there was a cool Evo 5 at the port there was and that is one thing that I could see yeah, but likeIt was one of the only things I could see. Yeah, it was it that was it though
That was the only other like cool car. There was a lot of different stuff there like
garbagegarbage trucks andFront end loaders and all this different stuff that is coming off boats and I just couldn't believe likeHow much stuff can really fit on boats if you think about it. Oh, yeah, wait
Do you do? Yeah, holy moly. I mean those ships are huge and like
Yeah, just being there, you know driving past those like I guess cranes or whatever at the port wherever where theyOffload the containers I suppose like that just looks crazy and it's likeThat is just a lot of moving parts and like a lot of justBig stuff going on. Yeah, it is it's a lot of it's cool
Yeah, and and there's a lot of opportunity toLike have accidents happen. I feel like yeah, yeah, yeah for real. I mean, that's just like a lot of stuff moving all the time and like
So the yeah, the only thing we really noticed like so as far as damage at port around the ship the only thingWe really noticed was one decent door dang yeah in the in the driver's side door. Yeah, but otherwise like
It seemed to have came to us how we left it also might as like someI don't know see squirt water all over it whatever it is today. There's definitely a layer of like
Right dirty water on it. Anyway, I think that's to be expected right like whenever you
Do get something over unless you I don't know I guessThere's probably higher in shipping companies or whatever that you have to pay a premium for but like you got to expect that the people handling these carsThat they don't know what they are. They're not treating them like yeah, you know what I mean. They're like
Walking by scuff and umDorting in like whatever. It's just another car to them. It's another thing. They got to move. It's another
whatever soYeah, it sucks, but I think that's one of those likeIt's part of it. It's part of it type of things and you can't be too upset about it because the end of the day
Most of that stuff can be pd art or buffed out or right yeah, whatever it might be this is more money. Yeah, yeah, it does suck
But at the end of the day, it's still sick car. Yeah, at the end of the day like you're at 11 30
At night, it's still in r 34In like garage, you know what I mean? So yeah, yeah, that's that is true
You know there is gonna be it's not always gonna be perfectYeah, and just understand that whenever you do get these cars, but don't be like oh, yeahI got the menace most pristine example of this and that and likeDon't be surprised if it gets adored in like yeah, cuz that was me. I'm like I got to lowest mileage GTT in the United States
Yeah, I think that is true now, but now has a door thing right, but like yeah, I mean some pd r and like whateverIt's a little bit of a headache, but cars still sick some pb and j and that thing will be all setSo what happens pretty much is after thatWeGet it on the carWe start making what was supposed to be a six hour trip back and ends up being like almost eight hours because of traffic andUm had the car strap down good, but unfortunately
uhIn one of the cities it was a huge bomb. Yeah, yeah, and we didn't see it come in. We did that. It was huge dude
I actually yeah, it's a peak. Yeah, dude. I went through that same
Part in my truck a few days later and I hit it at 70 and like I literally jumped my truck and he's got a zi - zr2k and like dude it like it scared me and like we were doing at least 70 through there and like with a trailer likeLet's just sayAll the wheels were off the ground had to be like holy so I when we did not expect that yeah, I know it's doneI think they fixed it now, but I'm sure they did holy laterYeah, so when we get home I'm circling around the car and I noticed that
One of the straps when we hit that bump one of the straps had put a lot of pressure on the bottom of the bumper and cracked itThen it is like a full nismo kit. Yeah, so I was a little bit in his discontinued since 99
Yeah, so I was pretty rare kit. Yeah, it's really rare and so it got smashed and
I was really kind of bummed, but I took it to my buddy Jason and he fixed it upYou never know that it ever happened, which was great. It was smashed, but you know, I wasn't bigger than a quarter and it was
On that backside it wasn't like the whole bumper. Yeah, nothing like that
But it is fiber it is a fiberglass kit so it you know, you can't repair it and you canRestore it. I guess right so now it's min so that's been passed it never happened right, but yeah brand new thing and like
Yeah, it was mint it's like dude come on andYeah, I was upset about that too becauseBecause that was the only thing wrong like otherwise the things min if you're on YouTube you can see it over here in the backgroundI mean the things minSo yeah, of course when you get that little issue with something that's min it's magnified. Yeah, yeah, it's the only thing
It's not like there's a bunch of it, you knowso basicallyWeGet it back I take the bumper to Jason start getting that repaired and then I wanted to start working on getting it registeredRight because that's the last biggest hurdle right? That is the last big that's the last big unknown like what do I do with all this paperwork?
Yeah, which what do they want? Do they know? Yeah, exactly so
Basically first I got to call up who I use for insurance for these type of cars, which is American collectors andSo I call them up and I'm like heyThis is the car. This is how much I'd like to ensure it for
Okay, that sounds great. We need pictures of the interior engine and all sides of the car. Have they done that for your previous cars? Yeah
So I'm like okay cool. They're like um, you know, yeah, we'll do it. Let's do it. It's gonna add you 300 dollars a year
I'm like okay, that's not bad. Yeah 300 bucks a year. Yeah
At this on top of the other give me to them. Yeah, I know right. Yeah, let me get to policies, please
ButYeah, so so that was easy boom check they sent me that I sent them moneyWe got that got insurance. Yes, so you're able to go to the to the town office and see what I guess the most place would be the DMV
B&B whatever yeah, which would stink as all the people would be thereI wouldn't be able to just go down to our good old ladies down into town office right right about our fancy Japanese carsRight, that's I guess one of those lucky things like being in a smaller town. You can
I don't know those people kind of know. Yeah, and then you can finesse them a little bit like I would like
I was walking them through some of the process so to speak you know like come on it's 4 p2. Well W947
Yeah, come on. Come on Cheryl. You know, you know, yeah, so I go down
And it was actually theTown manager who ended up helping me out. She's a nice lady. She's worked with us on other on our business stuff and
So she starts going down through she's like, you know, Bobbi. We're just gonna wing it
And I was like, yeah, I like the wing thingsBecause often it works out in my favorYou know, and so she starts going through and you know, she's filling out thesePapers about title not present and you know some different stuff and all of a sudden she's like, ohShe's like, Bobbi. I'm gonna have to have you get this vind verification and I'm like, what is there?
Yeah, I'm like hold on hold on. You want to come by the house? Yeah, yeah, like come on. Yeah, yeah
Like you want to come verify like what's up? Like what do you mean? You know, in
Well actually, you know, you have to have it done by apolice officer or state inspection station. Oh, like, but how can I get this done by a state inspection station if it's not registered?
Right like how does that work andLike then you have to callDispatch for the police and have them send a unit over in order to do this verificationAnd at this batch for the way. Yeah, just call this batch. I'm like, come on
I don't know how this bad. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't do that. Just call them on over but
it's it and so I'm like all rightIt's currently two o'clock two thirty. Yeah, they close at four thirty. I'm just trying to get this done today
Like I don't want to carry this over into the next business. Yeah, yeah, yeah, and so
pretty muchI get I get back to the garage here andI do call this batch. I let them know they call me back. They get the the vind and then
A sheriff shows up and it was actually a guy that already knew that had done some things with us at a priorBusiness engagement or whatever and so I was like hey manAnd he's like this Russian guy, you know, he's all into the car and he's likeTalking about the Japanese cars and driving on the right hand side and stuff, but he comes and he fills outHe verifies the van he fills everything out. Yeah
takes himLess than five minutesHands it back me and he says all right you're good to go go register your carAgain, I'm like that's it like you don't want to like take it for a rip or nothingYeah, I'm like get in dude. Yeah, like what?
Did he just literally he just wrote down the info? Yes, and then give me the piece of paper like
Signed it or whatever. Yeah, did you have like a stamp a special like no watermark wax?
Not they know nothing. He literally just
He signed it and gave it to me like I could have just written the stuff in myself if I wanted. Yeah
So I was like wow, okay cool. This is great. So I go back over I
I talked to Christine who is the town manager and I'm like I got it. She's like wow good job. Whatever. So we continue the process. Yeah, and
soOh, wow, I just noticed thatShe put two thousand two on my title applicationIt's a 98 but she put two thousand twoI'm my title sorry, we just just realized I got a toe 2002 instead of a 98WowSo anyways dumb dumb dumb. Yeah, I mean always for free. Yeah, she like
She's doing her best. Yeah, yeah, no, that's hard another hang up that they had was like
The registration wants mileageNot kilometer right right right and then but the title has a spot for kilometersWhich is what the car actually is and what it should betitled under so we just had this problem whereShe's putting in 20,000 milesWell, she's trying to put in 34,000 kilometers, rightBut the registration won't take that so then she's trying to put in the miles in the registration
But it automatically copies it to the title application like it was just like another little headache, right?
Right, right, right, right, right, within their system looks like a yeahAnd so she ended up just kind of putting both so that uhI guess I don't know. I'm sure the title department is gonna get this and be like what is going on
If this is not a 2002 it doesn't actually have both miles and kilometer, you know like they're just gonna be like what the heckBut I mean this is still minor, you know because I'm walking out of there with a registrationI'm walking out of there with plates some one of the plate. Yeah, I'm walking out of there able to
Drive the car as soon as I get to plate on it, which is like what I need itIt was on like whenever I came in the neck like that day. Yeah, like yeah, it didn't waste no time
10 minutes in between me coming here and yeah, so that was kind of the thing wasumWe just need to get the plate right like from the minute I bought it until the minute I got the plateThat's all I needed to do was get the plate yeah in my head, you knowYeah, yeah, yeah because it has been a thing. Yeah, like I could register my car up here
And I had a title I had insurance and they would not let me register it. Yeah
But now I did with it like I don't know if something changed likeBut yeah, now I I have amain tag and like it wasFine. Yeah, it was fine. It was really nothing. It's so weird
But a couple of years ago when I first got the car it wasImpossible and I had to do stupid stuff to even get aGet a title and get it registered in the tag. So like right
There's definitely a reason to have some anxiety about like getting the plate because yeahThat's always a thing with these cars is likeYes, getting until you get that plate. Yeah, right until you get that you're sweating right and then in that in the title
With that then on it that matches the one that hasn't been vence walked for from a 240YesGet it completely legitimate is always the concern, but I feel likeI feel like I understand the process now. Yeah
I got extra been verification forms so next time I'm able to justHave that done before I even go there. Yeah, and
Yeah, I just really feel like it was not nearly as bad as we thought it was gonna beYeahAnd it all kind of went fairly smooth, you know beyond the drive to the port and stuff like everything kind of went smoothYeah, no mature likePickups, you know, I didn't have to callTrevor for a single thing everything was provided that I needed soumYeah, I mean this isn't even a huge stack of papers. No, it's really not bad. So
overall IwouldAs before I would recommend importing it yourself. Yeah saving the money from the middleman and just like
Facing it right that's what that's what I would personally recommend because now that I've done it and I have the carThat I wanted in that I I didn't just settle for one and you know throughout the whole processI've had a bunch of support and stuff I would for sureWork with Trevor or another exporter over there and just import it yourself. Yeah deal with the little headaches
Because in the end it definitely adds up to like a lot of savings. I think right. Yeah. So the broker
Sound brokerage. Yeah. Are they specific to the New York port or are they anybody can get them? Yeah, anybody any
Any port near Washington. This was Washington. Yeah, so yeah, I mean
Sounds legit. Yeah, I mean it was legit. It was like super easy and then
I just pay paled them to the $2,000 fee and yeah, that was it cars releasedThat's why soYeah, that doesn't seem that bad at all like if you did a few moreWould you would you still get a broker and try to like do it yourselfOr or try to do it yourself or would you always just get a broker? I would choose the broker because
Their fee wasn't even that much out of all that yeah, the customs fee was the mostSo that's something probably that I would have them do that. I would even want to spend my time right
So most of these import companies probably have a broker that they use and for sure or they have abroker on staff so to speak right right specializes in that becauseJust knowing the people the contact to get these papers pushed through I wouldn't know them rightI would have those contactsSo she had contacts that she instantly like was able to clear things right yeah, so I meanI see the value in it 100% I mean maybe if you were doing 20 cars a year you might want to
Like save that money, but like again the fee was not a lot for them right yeahDo you see so yeah, I mean that pretty much wraps it up for this episodeEpisode 32 yeah kind of port clearing and registration ofYour right-hand drive car of course if you have any questions you can always just DM us at our HDG-Y-S and we can definitely try to point you in the right directionAnd if you do need an exporter hit up Trevor from Kizzo if you need a broker hit up Becky from sound brokerage
Yeah, but otherwise that's it for today. We're out
Peace, see ya!
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