Canada is the quiet half of the North American import trade. Prices are in a weaker currency, odometers are in kilometres, and a large share of Canadian used cars were themselves imported from the United States. The VIN check covers both countries at once.
Polish imports from Canada grew 13.8% in 2025 according to IBRM Samar, on top of a 48% rise in US imports the year before. A Belgrade-area dealer specialises in Canadian cars and Serbian and Croatian forums discuss the route. Lithuanian and Bulgarian brokers advertise "cars from the USA and Canada" together. Norway has treated cars registered at least six months in Canada like EU-registered cars since 2018.
A 2018 Ford Escape on a Toronto dealer's lot may have been a Florida rental, an insurance write-off after a Texas hailstorm, a Copart sale, a rebuilt-titled car in Georgia, and then an RIV import into Ontario with a clean Ontario registration. The Ontario Used Vehicle Information Package shows the Ontario part. The report by VIN shows all of it.
Each province the car sat in, how long, and any brand applied there.
Titles, brands, accidents and auction records from before the car crossed the border.
In kilometres for Canadian events and miles for US ones, in one sequence.
Canadian vehicles carry maintenance records more often than American ones.
Not reliably: Canadian liens are provincial PPSA registrations. Search the provincial registry before you pay; the report does not replace it.
Clean, salvage, rebuilt, flood, junk. Issued by a US state, invisible in every European registry.
How it is checkedCopart and IAAI intake photos, damage codes and sale price, from every sale the car went through, not only the current lot.
How it is checkedReadings at US titles, registrations and inspections in date order. A reading below an earlier one is a rollback.
How it is checkedThe EU's trade agreement with Canada (CETA) provides preferential tariffs for goods of Canadian origin with proof of origin. A car assembled in Canada (VIN beginning with 2) may qualify; a US-built car sold in Canada does not. Confirm the origin documents with your customs broker.
No. No province releases plate-to-VIN data to the public. Ask for the VIN.
Not reliably. Liens are registered under provincial PPSA law and only the provincial registry is authoritative. Search it directly.
Impact Auto Auctions and Copart Canada. Their lot pages work like their US counterparts and have the same gap: the current sale only.
Enter the VIN to see which US and Canadian records exist. The preview is free; the report is $19.99, once.