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Subject: RE: [worldcruising] Re:Importing to OZ
From: GB (graham.bannister@XXX.XXX)
Date: Thu Sep 26 2002 - 17:58:43 EDT
You should make contact with Customs .... See
http://www.customs.gov.au/
They should be able to answer most questions.
This is what their website says .... (ref
http://www.excess-baggage.com/customs/australia.asp) It has some funny
provisos so you need to confirm with them.
Sailing boats, motor boats or boats, will be admitted without payment of
customs duties and sales tax on the basis of one vessel per family per 3
years only if client is able to satisfy the collector of customs at the
port of entry that :
- He comes to Australia with the intention of forthwith taking up
permanent residence and
- He has personally owned and used the vessel overseas for the whole of
the period of 12 months immediately preceding his departure for
Australia and
- Security is given to the Customs that the vessel will not be sold or
otherwise disposed of in Australia by or on behalf of himself within 2
years after the date of importation into Australia and
- The vessel is of a kind designed principally for sporting purposes or
recreational use in sheltered waters and conforms to one of the
following specifications :
Boats of a kind propelled by manual or pedal power :
Sailing boats that, in the sailing condition, do not exceed 2.5 metres
in width at any section; do not exceed 1000 kilograms unladen weight; do
not incorporate any device for propelling the boat by power, such as an
auxiliary motor; and are not of the deep keel type; or
Powered boats that do not exceed 7 meters in length overall; do not
exceed 2.5 metres in width at any section; and do not exceed 1250
kilograms all up unladen weight (i.e. with driving units and
transmissions) or 800 kilograms unladen weight without driving units and
transmissions
If you want to assess the option of selling in US and buying a
replacement in Aus (unlikely given your plans to sail here) then take a
look at ...
http://www.boatpoint.com.au/Home/HomePage.asp for current used boat
prices.
Cheers.
Graham B.
s/v Southern Aura
Australia
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>Sent: Thursday, 26 September 2002 9:51 PM
>To: worldcruising@XXX.XXX
>Subject: [worldcruising] Re:Importing to OZ
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>I am engaged to an Ozzie girl and am wondering how difficult
>it is to import
>my Catalina 38. I will be emigrating in Jan 2004. any
>insights and info would
>be greatly appreciated.
>
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