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[*] posted on 2-24-2010 at 08:33 AM
Cancel Temporary Import Permit


Bought a boat in Baja a few years ago that had not been imported yet. I used a boat broker and he assisted in the importation but I believe his name is on the 10 year TIP? I have since brought the boat back to the US and, wouldn't you know it, sold it to a guy who lives in Mexico! He needs the TIP canceled before he can bring it back. Any ideas on how to do that? The boat is in San Diego so bringing it to the border would not be a big problem.
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[*] posted on 2-24-2010 at 09:56 AM


Why not walk across at San Ysidro and ask Aduana how to proceed? Tell them that you are ABOUT to sell it. I think they will just require you to scrap the sticker off the windshield, if you applied it, and also bring the certificate of importation in.

Please let us know what they say. This is a situation I cant recall reading about before.




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[*] posted on 3-10-2010 at 06:20 PM


Thought I'd close the loop on this one. I contacted the original broker in Cabo and was told he could cancel the permit, without the boat, in La Paz (Pichilingue) if I sent him the original paperwork and sticker off the boat. Would have been 2 DHL shipments to do that. I contacted Banjercito in Mexico City and was told I personally had to bring the boat and paperwork to Tijuana to cancel it. There is 2 problems with that, first is I don't have the original equipment list and second it is near impossible to trailer a boat to their office in TJ. I went anyway hoping my charm would work.

I spent nearly 2 hours convincing the Banjercito guy that it was difficult to bring the boat in and that I was the legal owner. After a while, an conversations with the Adjuana guys and Mexico City, he said bring the sticker in he would cancel it. Round trip from TJ to San Diego cost me over 2 hours but I returned.

When I goy back he said he needed the original list when we applied for the permit as well as the sticker. Another hour convincing him that's not what he told me originally. More meetings and phone calls. FINALLY after 6 hours I was able to cancel the permit (and no morbido!). The giys know what he did was probably "illegal" and was not very comfortable about it.

Lesson learned is we gringos TRY to follow their rules but they make it so damn difficult and threaten harsh penalties if we don't. One would think, I know this is a stretch, that government functions (immigration, customs, etc.) dealing with foreigners would make a SMALL effort to have someone who spoke english. It blew me away that TJ had ZERO. I'm not an ugly American but cmon' guys!

I buddy that is racing his boat to Cabo next month just told me Cabo now REQUIRES TIP's to get into the harbor. He told me how easy it was to get it online. He got the paperwork and sticker (they don't have to see the boat to issue a sticker) but all of the instructions were in Spanish. Mexico - You think some "importing" might be a foreigner? He knows NOTHING about the cancellation of the permit and, in the event he sells the boat in the US without canceling the permit, he will never be allowed another TIP for his new boat!

I can't believe I am the only one that has had this frustration. I love Mexico, have a home there and sort of know how to get around. I have limited spanish but am making the effort to learn. I just wish there was some Mexican tourism department that would listen and act on some of these issues.

Sorry to rant on...I feel better now!
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