{"id":6817,"date":"2022-08-09T18:21:58","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T00:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/catradeconsulting.com\/?p=6817"},"modified":"2022-08-26T10:16:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T16:16:33","slug":"capsula-5-nuevas-reglas-aduaneras-para-la-importacion-de-naves-aeronaves-maquinaria-y-equipo-alquilado-o-con-contrato-de-leasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catradeconsulting.com\/en\/capsula-5-nuevas-reglas-aduaneras-para-la-importacion-de-naves-aeronaves-maquinaria-y-equipo-alquilado-o-con-contrato-de-leasing\/","title":{"rendered":"Information capsule: New customs rules for the import of ships, aircraft, machinery, and equipment rented or leased."},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6817\" class=\"elementor elementor-6817\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-08e4aab elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"08e4aab\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-ca78456\" data-id=\"ca78456\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f619daf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f619daf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;text-align: justify;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">Ref:<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> Reform Law to the General Customs Law<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\"> from Costa Rica <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">(Law <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">No.10271<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">)<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;; color: rgb(38, 38, 38); background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/b><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#262626;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Importing a ship, aircraft, machinery, or equipment into Costa Rica can be very expensive because the taxes applicable upon customs clearance are calculated based on the value of the merchandise. For example, if a backhoe loader had a CIF value (cost, insurance, and freight) of US$$ 303,000,<\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">,<\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#262626;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> The amount of taxes payable would be approximately US$$ 43 thousand. Until now, companies have opted to import this type of merchandise under the temporary import scheme to save taxes, although this is not always the case. <\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">this<\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#262626;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> It is feasible, since this customs regime is restricted to temporary imports made by state institutions or under contracts with state institutions, called the state category.<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#262626;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">The difficulties that companies have faced could be eliminated or reduced, since the recent reform to the General Customs Law<\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\"> made in Costa Rica<\/span><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#262626;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">Article 137 bis of the Constitution creates a modality, under the import regime, that allows the introduction into the national customs territory of goods (ships, aircraft, machinery, and equipment) rented or under a leasing contract. In light of comparative customs law, this import modality is quite atypical, given that we are not dealing with a customs operation subject to the definitive import regime, since the goods entering the country are not considered to be in free circulation, nor would they be classified under the temporary import regime.<\/span><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#262626;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">This new provision would allow the introduction into the national customs territory for a maximum period of five (5) years, of ships, aircraft, machinery and equipment, for use and destination in productive activity and under a rental or leasing contract. Consequently, a company could enter the aforementioned merchandise to be used for a productive activity, for example, construction, agriculture, industry, navigation, fishing, among others, and taxes must be paid on the value of the &quot;lease&quot; and not on the customs value of the merchandise.<\/span><\/p><p><b style=\"font-weight:normal;\"><br><\/b><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#262626;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">If you have any questions or require advice on this or other topics, please contact us. <\/span><a href=\"mailto:costarica@catradeconsulting.com\" style=\"text-decoration:none;\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#1155cc;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">costarica@catradeconsulting.com<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#262626;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><p><\/p><p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt;\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#262626;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\">\u00a9 2022 Catrade Consulting. All Rights Reserved.<\/span><\/p><div><span style=\"font-size:12pt;font-family:'Times New Roman';color:#262626;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;\"><br><\/span><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ref: Ley de Reforma a la Ley General de Aduanas de Costa Rica (Ley No.10271)&nbsp;&nbsp; Importar en Costa Rica una nave, aeronave, m\u00e1quina o equipo puede resultar muy costoso debido a que los impuestos aplicables al momento de pasar por aduanas se calculan sobre el valor de la mercanc\u00eda. Por ejemplo, si una m\u00e1quina retroexcavadora&#8230;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-capsulas-catrade"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/catradeconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/catradeconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/catradeconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catradeconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catradeconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6817"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/catradeconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6846,"href":"https:\/\/catradeconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6817\/revisions\/6846"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catradeconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/catradeconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catradeconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/catradeconsulting.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}