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Speaker:
Coleman
Sachs, Chief
Import
and Certification Division, Office of Vehicle Safety Compliance
National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration
The Presentation will cover:
- Requirements
for importing motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment
- Certification
requirements for vehicles and covered items of equipment
- Procedural
requirements that manufacturers must meet to export vehicles and
equipment to the US
- Requirements
for importing nonconforming vehicles
- Requirements
for Registered Importers
- Import
eligibility petition process
- Distinction
between vehicle and equipment standards
- Vehicle
and Equipment import statistics
- How
to readily identify whether a motorcycle is compliant
- How
to identify noncompliant lighting equipment, including high intensity
discharge headlight conversion kits, markings on headlamps, and
lighting equipment with missing functions
- How
to identify whether a vehicle offered for importation as an off- road
vehicle is in fact off-road
- Factors
the agency uses to decide whether a vehicle with both on-road and
off-road characteristics is on-road
- Criteria
for treating small two- or three-wheeled vehicles such as mini-bikes,
mini-choppers, or mini-ninjas as motor vehicles subject to the
standards
- How
to distinguish a low-speed vehicle
- How
to treat vehicles imported in a partially or completely disassembled
state
- How
to distinguish truly vintage vehicles from newer vehicles offered for
importation as ones that are at least 25-years old, and therefore
exempted from the need to comply with applicable standards
- NHTSA's
Best Importer Practices guidance
Complimentary
Session for FCBF Members.
FCBF
Members must register.
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