Boarder crossing insanity - CBP gone crazy...
We've been taking a TT across the US/Canada border for years. We have Nexus and are "pre-cleared" for higher security. We always use the Pacific Highway crossing in south Surrey, BC. because it's th...
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JaxDad wrote:
I heard from someone just recently who got stuck this way. The US & Canadian gov’s now share border crossing info. They headed south with a 5’er in the fall, upon trying to re-enter Canada this spring (without the 5’er which was then in the storage yard of their C/G) the CBSA agent asked them if they’d forgotten something? They knew they had left with an RV but weren’t bringing it back home and it hadn’t been imported either. They were offered the opportunity to return and retrieve their ‘forgotten’ RV or import it into the US legally.
This ended up biting my sister decades ago: she took her family in her car to visit relatives in Victoria. No problem crossing the border, but once in Victoria she had car trouble that ended up with the car engulfed in flames. It got towed away to a junk yard, and she got a bill for import duties on the car because she wasn't taking it back home with her, and it was a smoking hulk! She drove it into Canada, and did not drive it back out, so it became an import and duty fees needed to be paid...
