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Acuity
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New rules for importing vehicles starting Monday
See this article http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/080302/used_cars.html
Seems that from Monday, only vehicles 10 years old or newer can be imported.
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Lauriboats
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Thanks for the info.
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DENNIS
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I heard of this new regulation a couple of weeks ago. It seems too exact in detail to be taken seriously at this point. It will flood Baja with
California plated cars that can't be imported, opening the floodgates of curbside mordita.
I question the validity of the report. If not the validity, the sanity.
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BMG
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For Sale
1998 Blazer - low miles, very clean U$12,000.
Oops, just checked it's a 1997. Sale price U$1200.
I think the world is run by C- students.
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The article is rather confusing, but after I read the whole smear, I think that it really means all cars from 1998 on can be imported.
Let's say that it's very poorly worded.
[Edited on 3-3-2008 by vandenberg]
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longlegsinlapaz
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"only cars made for the 1998 model year -- none older and none newer -- can be legally imported into Mexico." Kate's right!
If you read what it ACTUALLY says versus what you think it ought to say, it's pretty clear. Now as to the accuracy of the information..... But the reasons given pretty much back up the info as stated.
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BMG
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UPI story
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico, Feb. 16 (UPI) -- Environmentalists say falling trade barriers are sending millions of polluting older U.S. vehicles south of
the border to rumble anew in Mexico.
It's estimated more than 3 million late-model cars and trucks have been legally sold in Mexico in the last 2 1/2 years and millions more are headed
south because of the North American Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA, the Los Angeles Times reported Saturday.
NAFTA officially requires Mexico to begin opening its market to some used vehicles from the U.S. and Canada next year. Former Mexican President
Vicente Fox sped up the process in August 2005 when he agreed to allow the import of vehicles 10 to 15 years old. That decree was modified this year
to allow imports of only 1998 models for the rest of 2008.
The import of roomy used U.S. cars has meant a slump in sales in Mexico for new cars meeting stricter environmental standards, the Times reported.
"The U.S. sends us junk, and Mexico sends back pollution," said Alma Leticia Figueroa Jimenez, the former head of ecology for Ciudad Juarez.
I think the world is run by C- students.
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Acuity
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Humm. On rereading, I see I was wrong in assuming that newer cars were ok. I must have had my logical glasses on.
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Only 1998 year cars can be imported. Older cars pollute, they (Gov't) say. Newer cars are too much competition for Mexican car dealers, says the
Mexican Car Dealers Assc.
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DENNIS
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Years back, they did the same thing with used tires. That market was cutting into the Mexico manufactured tires market so they put heavy
restrictions on import. I don't think anything is done from a standpoint of pollution but, in the interests of big business trying to look like
they're concerned about the environment. Mexico learns this from the USA.
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unbob
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Mexico Abruptly Restricts Car Imports
Anyone care?
Read it here
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Hook
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Mexico Abruptly Restricts Car Imports
Believe this is a direct violation of NAFTRA.
Tourists dont care but ex-pats might.
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Taco de Baja
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Mexico Abruptly Restricts Car Imports
Maybe it'll put a dent in car thefts in many of the border states; many of these cars apparently end up south of the border.
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Mexico Abruptly Restricts Car Imports
Good point Taco. I did not think of it from that angle.
Not sure I understand why 1998 is the magic year either.
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Hook
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Mexico Abruptly Restricts Car Imports
| Quote: | Originally posted by CaboRon
I'm an expat and I don't care.
I transferred title to a state that is expat friendly and I don't let Mexicans drive my vehicle.
CaboRon
edit: Also, I think it will help with car theft in border cities.
[Edited on 3-4-2008 by CaboRon] |
So, you live 24/7, 365 days in Mexico?
[Edited on 3-4-2008 by Hook]
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How will it be enforced? I think I could still drive a 97 truck down there and sell it. It would be the buyers responsibilty to register it and deal
with the import. I think they will figure it out. Mexicans are clever like that. 
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." J. A. Shedd.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. – Albert Einstein
"Life's a Beach... and then you Fly!" Fishbuck
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by fishbuck
Mexicans are clever like that. |
I think the next obvious step will be to change registration to say what you want it to say.
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DENNIS
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Mexico Abruptly Restricts Car Imports
| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaGeoff
Not sure I understand why 1998 is the magic year either. |
It will change each year. Next year, '99.
This whole thing is an uncontrollable mess. It will be a mordita magnet.
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fishbuck
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| Quote: | Originally posted by DENNIS
| Quote: | Originally posted by fishbuck
Mexicans are clever like that. |
I think the next obvious step will be to change registration to say what you want it to say. |
Dennis, you've been there so long you starting to think in Mexican!
I like it.
"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for." J. A. Shedd.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. – Albert Einstein
"Life's a Beach... and then you Fly!" Fishbuck
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comitan
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Along with those sames lines, I know a Mexican that imported a 2007 diesel pickup. You can't do that you say!
Strive For The Ideal, But Deal With What\'s Real.
Every day is a new day, better than the day before.(from some song)
Lord, Keep your arm around my shoulder and your hand over my mouth.
“The sincere pursuit of truth requires you to entertain the possibility that everything you believe to be true may in fact be false”
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