"Enrique" wrote in message
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> "MMcC" wrote in message
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> > I doubt they will charge you the full price of the car, what they will
> > charge is the import duty, i.e the import tax as if the car was being
> > imported to Mexico, of course on a nice car that could be a hefty
amount.
> >
>
> I was driving a diesel Mercedes that cost me $2,600 four years previous.
> I bet the import fee is way more than the true depreciated value of the
car.
> In spite of having 300,000 miles on it, Mexico considers it a luxury car,
no
> mater what. There must be some reason that I didn't see one like it with
> Mexican plates in my drive through every costal state of Mexico and
several
> interor states. Do you really think the import tax would be less than
the
> value of my car?
In that particular case, probably not. But in general (which was my point,
as I could hardly have known of your unusual situaution) the import duty
would be quite a bit less that the total value of the car.
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