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Good Afternoon Goons! Background: US guy working with a Canadian Film Crew. Not a "traditional" production manager, transitioned to film from theatre I have a producer who is bugging me to get a Carnet for our equipment that is going from Canada to the US. Their Claim is that it would save us from having to pay duty on the equipment when we come back into Canada. We work with a sports and entertainment company and are shooting run-and-gun style, the heftiest cameras we have in our kit are Canon C200s The total value of our gear crossing the border, split among two video teams is about 35k per team, meaning the down payment on the Carnet is around 15k if we pay a Cash deposit. I am working on pricing out a bond My question here is: Have any of you guys, particularly run-n-gun shooters, ever had issues crossing borders? What is the worst-case scenario here? I appreciate the assist!
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Jan 23, 2020 22:16
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Might need an explainer on "carnet"
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Feb 5, 2020 11:04
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sebmojo posted:Might need an explainer on "carnet"
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Feb 5, 2020 15:26
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quote:Goods covered by the ATA CarnetEdit Looks a sensible precaution imo. Customs can be giant dicks. Maybe ask in The Dorkroom though, you'll probably get more camera peeps there.. sebmojo fucked around with this message at 19:31 on Feb 5, 2020 |
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Feb 5, 2020 19:29
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Probably old news now and likely cancelled anyhow but we ship a lot of similar things around the world for work, primarliy for trade shows and exhibitions. (Do I even have a job anymore? Who knows). We've found that as long as you're meticulous on creating a commercial invoice and making sure to get all of your HTS codes correct you are going to be fine with standard shipping. We've used carnets in the past and they've worked ok but there are issues if the return shipment is different to the one you sent. As long as all of your gear is going there and all of the same gear is going back the carnet can work well. Aargh fucked around with this message at 02:54 on Mar 25, 2020 |
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Mar 25, 2020 02:51
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