The customs officers in Tianjin Economic Development Area, TEDA, accepted our documents today: - amounting to some 100 pages of documentations. Valiantly all copied and chopped by Erika.
- 5 photos per car
- Specifications in Chinese (each CofC translated)
- Owner identity – each low vol car import has to have an 'owner.' we have to submit copies of Chinese national IC's
- Application for low volume import per car
- Our licenses
- Factory invoices – engine numbers and CofC and VIN's all to match!
- And some sundry other application documents.
China specializes in documentation!
The good news is that once we have registered these first Morgan's into to the customs systems, some of the submissions will be a formality. Until these cars came in, Morgan's were not on the customs' registry.
My understanding is that next I have to pay taxes and then we move to CIQ.
Each of these cars requires a great deal of paperwork. Surely this is not a low carbon business.
TEDA is part of a regional development initiative focusing on automotive. In the year 2002 43,420 cars were imported and sold through the Tianjin Bonded Area, occupying 61.7% of the total amount of China. The region, host to 100 auto producers of which four are whole car manufacturers and 106 are parts providers. was the source of 500,000 cars in 2010, and aims to produce over 1.2 million cars in 2015. We saw rather a lot of them parked outside the bonded warehouses.The scale of China once again puts our own efforts to clear 6 cars, into perspective.
