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What is required to import of off-road engines, equipment, vehicles (i.e. lawn, garden, and construction equipment) into the U.S.?
The Environmental Protection Agency regulates imports of off-road engines, equipment, and vehicles (i.e. lawn, garden, and construction equipment). All imports of these items must conform to U.S. emissions standards. Items that do not conform to U.S. standards must be imported by an Independent Commercial Importer (ICI), and will not be cleared through U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) until they meet U.S. standards. To obtain CBP clearance, you must submit a completed EPA form 3520-21 to CBP along with your entry summary (CBP 7501) and/or the bill of sale and lading. Commercial imports of these items require a formal entry and all of those documents must be submitted to CBP along with a Customs bond. Customs bonds can be obtained from a surety company. You can obtain a list of approved sureties on Treasury's Financial Management Service's Web site at www.fms.treas.gov - the list is identified as Circular 570. Conforming personal imports of these items may be cleared informally without a bond, but you must still present the bill of sale and lading (if shipped), and EPA form 3520-21 must be presented to Customs upon entry. Formal and informal entries must be filed within 15 days of the goods arrival, otherwise they will be forwarded to a general order warehouse (G.O.) and are subject to being auctioned off after 6 months. For additional information on U.S. Customs import procedures, please reference our publication entitled U.S. Import Requirements. For EPA regulations and to obtain the form 3520-21, visit www.epa.gov or call (734) 214-4100.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
http://www.epa.gov/
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