Moving car through U.S. from Canada on temporary registration?

In article <62p3s1dco29loj0a40dnllijt4spicps96@>,
Hatunen <hatuunen@cox.net> wrote:
>On 8 Jan 2006 20:07:26 -0800, "DP" <dhphelp@> wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>
>>I'll be buying a car in another province in Canada and driving it
>>back through the U.S. with a temporary registration permit. This means
>>that the car will not have any plates in place and will only have a
>>temporary paper permit placed on the front window.
>>
>>To me, this seems somewhat risky to drive long distances, through two
>>countries with no plates.
>>
>>Am I more likely to get stopped or hassled at the border in this
>>situation?
>
>My question would be, "Are the Americans going to try to charge
>me customs duties?"

No duty would be due, as the car was to be returned to Canada; that's
pretty clear.
--
There's no such thing as a free lunch, but certain accounting practices can
result in a fully-depreciated one.

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, sechumlib wrote:

> Gee, you actually recognize that the War of 1812 involved intense
> aggression by the US on Canada. Good for you!

Yeah, what's the difference between an American and a Canadian?


....the Canadian knows the difference.

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Hatunen wrote:

>>> My question would be, "Are the Americans going to try to charge me
>>> customs duties?"
>>
>> No duty would be due, as the car was to be returned to Canada; that's
>> pretty clear.
>
> The problem is to prove it.

Not a problem at all, as I previously posted.

On Mon, 16 Jan 2006, Hatunen wrote:

> I don't really doubt there's no problem

Let's see, I count one, two, three negatives. Didn't your grammar teacher
ever teach you never to use no multiple negatives?

In article <9kvss1da78a5orqt5po4qclta9160qiooh@>,
Hatunen <hatuunen@cox.net> wrote:
>
>Some people don't understand there's a seamier side to life; the
>customs people do.

And yet Canadians drive their cars across the border all the time,
with no proof of anything (not that it's possible to prove you
-aren't- intending to sell the car illegally in the US) and without a
customs official even raising an eyebrow. Perfectly legally, too.
--
There's no such thing as a free lunch, but certain accounting practices can
result in a fully-depreciated one.

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006, Dave Smith wrote:

> Register? They need to register? They can just take a plate off a
> different car and stick it on the one they smuggled in.

Completely irrelevant to the topic at hand.