美国代购买豪车，高价倒卖到中国

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Matthew Goldstein, 美国代购买豪车，高价倒卖到中国. 纽约时报中文网, Feb 12, 2014
cn.nytimes.com/business/20140212/c12chinacars/

, which is translated from

Matthew Goldstein, US Targets Buyers of China=Bound Luxury Cars; Prosecutors in six states have begun to crack down on businesses.

Quote:

“Michael A Downs, a businessman in Fort Lauderdale, Fla * * * His three-year-old business recruits people in a dozen or so states to buy new cars [eg, Mercedes, BMW and Range Rover] from dealerships in the United States. He then sells those vehicles to other companies, which ship them to China. Once in China, the cars, which typically retail for $55,000 to $75,000 in the United States, can be resold for as much as three times those prices.

“Most car manufacturers require [US] dealerships to verify that customers are not buying cars to quickly export them to overseas markets. Dealers can be penalized if a new car sold in the United States is traced to a subsequent buyer overseas.

My comment: Because the report does not specify what state or federal law--criminal or civil--the “gray market” violates, I can not make an independent judgment. Fret not, due to the pending lawsuits, which are bound to clearify the issues.