You can to use the ZIM DUTY CALCULATOR for VEHICLES to estimate the amount of duty you MIGHT be charged when importing goods.
For example, you want to find out the import duty you would be charged on a 2014 Mercedes Benz ML250 that you want to buy from www.autorader.co.uk. The car is in the United Kingdom with an invoice value of £17,940 and it will arrive at Walvis Bay port. The first thing you need to ascertain is the location of the car and how it
will be able to reach the port where it will be loaded into the shipping vessel destined for Africa.
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The steps are outlined below:
- Gather as much information about the car as possible before you can proceed to use the calculator. Gather information like
- Type of vehicle – SUV
- Invoice value – £17,940
- Sea freight – £1000
- Any port handling charges – NAD4500 (NAD- Namibian Dollar)
- Any road carriage to the border post – NAD9000
- After ascertaining the above things, open zimdutycalculator.co.zw . The following page will pop up.
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- Select your vehicle make
- Select vehicle typeAfter you select a picture, a pictorial drop down screen appears and shows you the model of vehicles you have selected.
- Select the Country of Supply (UK) and also choose year of manufacture
- Enter Invoice Value, i.e., £17940, and select GBP as currency
- Also enter Ocean freight of £1000, and select GBP as currency
- Also enter NAD4500 in the other charges box, select NAD as currency
- Finally enter the road freight charges of NAD7000 if taken by carrier to border.
- After entering the above details the calculator automatically calculates the duty including surtax and VAT and gives a summary.
After this you are home and dry. The calculator shows you whether surtax is payable or not or whether a licence is required.
You can even print the whole page.
2 replies on “Customs duty for an SUV (importing from UK)”
Thanks for the breakdown of the duty process… but are you saying, you need usd50k+ for that car to arrive in Zim?
yes