Car/Vehicle Shipping Cost from Baku to Tokyo

Japan's "3-year car rule" refers to the mandatory, costly vehicle inspection called Shaken, where a new car's first inspection is due three years after registration, with subsequent inspections every two years, making older cars expensive to keep and boosting new car sales, often leading to trade-ins around the three-year mark. This strict system ensures high safety standards and creates a steady supply of well-maintained used cars for export, say www.alibaba.com and Japanese Nostalgic Car.

Registered vehicles of contracting states of the Convention at Geneva 1949 can be driven in Japan with their foreign license plates only if they have cleared customs using Carnet de Passages en Douane (CPD).

Pay Import Duties and Taxes Cars that are imported from Japan are subject to VAT and duty. Import VAT is 20% and duty is 10%. HMRC will inform you how much you owe after you have declared the car.