Can Water Vehicles Be Licensed?
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Pure water vehicles cannot be licensed. Pure water vehicles refer to smuggled cars, which are vehicles that have not been imported through the country's normal import channels and have not paid taxes, also known as untaxed imported vehicles. More related information is as follows: 1. Most water vehicles are second-hand or brand-new cars carefully selected by professional buyers in Dubai/Germany/California, USA, and then shipped to Hong Kong via sea freight. Since Hong Kong is a free trade port, there are no tariffs on goods trade in Hong Kong, and thus the concept of smuggling does not exist there. These vehicles are then transported back to the mainland by freight companies using irregular means, which is equivalent to smuggling, as China's current customs regulations prohibit the import and trade of second-hand cars, regardless of the amount of tax paid. Such vehicles are colloquially known as water vehicles in China. 2. Due to transportation costs and uncontrollable risk costs, only high-quality mid-to-high-end large-displacement vehicles are selected abroad for water vehicles. Low-end vehicles are generally not chosen because their prices are inherently low, and after adding shipping costs, they offer no cost-performance advantage. Therefore, water vehicles are often various world-famous cars, with even C-class cars considered unremarkable. 3. Typically, water vehicles refer to smuggled vehicles imported from abroad without proper documentation. However, the scope of 'water vehicles' seems to be expanding recently. Many places now refer to all vehicles without proper documentation as 'water vehicles,' which may not necessarily be black-market cars, but without proper documentation, they cannot undergo annual inspections or be transferred to new owners.
