US dealers are only allowed to sell to US-licensed and/or addressed people. They are not allowed to sell for "export".
Canadian dealers, too, are not allowed to sell for "export"...to the US, or to Europe, where metric gauges are mandatory...only to Canadian-licensed and/or domiciled folks.
"Free Trade"...isn't...
Having said what I've said, there is NO limitation/restriction on how long an original owner must maintain ownership...
If you purchase a US dealer-originating new GM vehicle, GM-Canada precludes warrantee coverage in Canada for a
Canadian-registered-but-US-purchased vehicle for the 1st 6 months/12,000 km (7,500 mi). If you have a problem during that period, only a US dealer can perform repairs under the original terms of the warrantee. Otherwise, you pay...
Regarding price: There was a time, mid-'80s, when the Canadian $ was stronger than US $, and the prices were nearly the same @ MSRP. If a non-Canadian resident purchased a vehicle in Canada, they were credited the then-9% Federal Sales Tax already built into the Canadian price of the vehicle (this predates GST) if they "exported" it within 30 days of purchase (this was then true of
ALL commodities, not just vehicles).
The US dealers
FREAKED! People by the busload were travelling
FROM the US to Canada to buy all manner of vehicles. Manufacturers instituted, variously, all manner of "restrictions", eventually. GM-Canada threated to decrease you allocations by
TWO for every
ONE you sold that ended up stateside. The "export" process ended almost overnight...
In the mid-'90s or so, it was found that, with the weak Canadian $ (about $.67 US, before the invasion of Iraq...), US dealers/distributors of GM and AC Delco Parts could come to Canada and buy certain parts (in many instances) for considerably le$$ than they could buy them in the US through "normal channels". A Canadian dealer I'm familiar with sold roughly a
MILLION $/MONTH to a distributor in the US...by the 48' trailer-load! Finally (?!) GM-Canada simply, and summarily, raised parts prices pretty much across the board, to "compensate", in the early 2000s...
Next time you wonder why a Heritage Grille costs so much more in Canada, remember this lil "tale"...
I'll go on record as saying that GM-Canada is, and has been historically, perhaps
THE most profitable "division" of General Motors Corporation.
As to "allocations", I addressed that earlier, in the other thread...post 31...
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