Importing cars in Chile

Those Chileans older (18 years) with one or more years of residence abroad and with a break of less than 30 days during the past year, you can import a car benefits from the Customs Tariff Item 0033, directly from abroad or from a Free Zone. This allows tariff position under these conditions, import a vehicle, new or used, subject to the payment of all applicable duties and taxes, excluding the charge for use, where appropriate, leaving the latter with a restriction of ownership and disposition for three years.

If the applicant has been living in Chile for more than 30 days during the past year, must first obtain permission from the Director General of Customs, through a request accompanied by a travel certificate Police investigations Chile, indicating the reasons for staying longer in the country for grading.

The existing taxes on car imports are:
a) Ad-Valorem Rights (6% of customs value of the vehicle)
b) I.V.A. (19% of the customs value plus the amount of the rights of vehicle).
NOTE: The discounts of 10% annual depreciation is granted for vehicles used have a maximum of 70%.
The vehicle must enter the country within 90 days from the date of your beneficiary. However, this period may be extended, in specific cases, by the Administrator or Regional Director for Customs.
If the traveler is abroad, or Chilean, but that does not meet the requirements of this standard, you can import a vehicle only if it is new, fulfilling all the customs formalities, bank and canceling all the rights and taxes. Means a new and unused vehicle who at the time of acceptance for processing of the relevant import declaration to the Customs Service, correspond to models of the same year or following the date of importation.
Also, consider not using those vehicles in the year immediately prior to import, provided that such date is no later than 30 April of the year following that model. By exclusion, any vehicle not considered within the terms indicated, is considered used. The concept of "unused vehicle" established by Law No. 18,483, it also implies that these species have the mileage is necessary to transfer them from the foreign supplier to import into the country. Finally, general information is present that to determine the customs value of vehicles, interested parties must submit to the Appraisal Section of the National Customs Assessment Certificate, noting the following information: type of vehicle, brand, model, year, engine number or chassis serial number of cylinders, number of doors, capacity cc engine capacity, year of manufacture, and optional accessories which incorporates the vehicle, where the vehicle and any other data that allows proper individualization.

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