Exporting nice cars to Australia

[jezrider]

Hi All,
Ok, i guess this has been asked a thousand times and im sorry if we are covering old ground here... i need someone to tell me in laymans terms the process and cost for me to export some of my sales cars (mainly M3's, CSL's, M5's etc) to Australia. i had a look on the net and got confused (does not take much!)
if anyone can spare 5 mins to answer this and tell me if these type of cars are popular over there, i would really appreciate it.

Cheers

[aussiebeano]

this is one of the best links all about importing. The link in this post to Karman Shipping will tell you all you need. I believe you can only import one car at a time, and only after 12 months of continuus ownership. By the way it is just on the 2nd page of this forum

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[jezrider]

i will have a read of that, thanks .. My colleague has briefly read something on the net saying that companies do not have to comply with the 12 month ownership thing...
i will read this link and hopefully htat will make things clearer

[tim the pool man]

The 12 month continuous ownership is for personal imports, which gets you around the normal rule that you basically can't import anything.

The rules keep changing, but AIUI outside of personal imports, you can import
Pre 1989 cars
Post 1989 cars which were never sold here, subject to holding a licence to import and comply to ADRs that exact model of car, said licence costing around $100K.

edit because I mis-spelled "I"...

Edited by tim the pool man on Friday 25th July 15:38

[7805]

Sounds like you have a few cars to export, as mentioned above if you havent owned them for 12 months then the personal import route isnt the best way. Just a thought, and Ive never done it but maybe you'd be better exporting them to New Zealand?? I think the rules are slightly different there but Im not sure?

Also - unless you are based here in Australia (on a work permit/residency etc), they wont allow you import the vehicles under the personal import scheme.