China Car Import Cost Calculator

Assessed on: CIF value assessed by Nigeria Customs, not your commercial invoice alone.

Electric vehicles: Nigeria has run VAT and levy reliefs for electric vehicles at various times. Do not assume an exemption applies to your HS code and shipment date without written confirmation.

Before you quote: Nigeria's 2026 changes were widely reported as an "import tariff cut to 5%". That describes the NAC levy; the 20% base import duty was not reduced. Published breakdowns still disagree on the landed NAC rate for cars and on which valuation method sets the CISS/FOB levy, so two lines above are shown as bands. Have your clearing agent confirm the full stack in writing before you price a unit.

Assessed on: CIF value; duty band is set by engine size for combustion vehicles.

Electric vehicles: The EV band is the whole reason a Chinese BEV or EREV can land near an ICE SUV in Ghana. That advantage rides entirely on a government incentive, so confirm the current rate before you quote a retail customer, not after.

Assessed on: KRA values from its CRSP schedule (a published retail price list, depreciated for age) — NOT your FOB or CIF invoice. Treat the figure below as a shape check, then re-run it on the CRSP value for the exact model.

Electric vehicles: The 10% excise row for electric and hybrid vehicles is the single biggest lever in Kenya — it replaces a petrol band that can reach 35%.

Before you quote: Kenya is the market where a CIF-based estimate misleads most often, because KRA assesses on CRSP. If the CRSP value for your model is higher than your CIF, every line above scales up with it.

Assessed on: CIF value, but customs may substitute its own assessment if the declared price looks below market.

Before you quote: Duty and VAT are the easy part in the UAE. The costs that actually derail shipments are GCC-spec conformity and the ESMA certificate — a unit that fails on lighting, cooling or a missing conformity certificate cannot register until it is modified.

Assessed on: CIF value as assessed by ZATCA.

Before you quote: Customs duty on vehicles is set per tariff line and is not published here as a flat rate — confirm your exact HS code with ZATCA. Conformity is the real gate: register the shipment through the SABER platform and obtain the shipment conformity certificate BEFORE loading. A GCC-spec claim is not a substitute.

Assessed on: Customs value under EAEU rules.

Before you quote: The 15,000-unit duty-and-VAT-free EV quota was exhausted around 15 October 2025. An electric car no longer clears free — budget 16% VAT plus the recycling fee. The recycling fee (50 MRP × a coefficient for engine volume and age) is not modelled here; confirm the current figure before quoting.

Assessed on: Customs value under EAEU rules.

Before you quote: The recycling fee (утильсбор) is the number that decides whether a unit pencils out, and it is deliberately NOT estimated here. Since December 2025 it scales with engine power and the preferential rate is kept only up to 160 hp — nearly every popular Chinese export SUV sits above that line. It is indexed annually and has changed repeatedly. Model it per unit before you commit to a container.

Assessed on: CIF value as assessed by Aduana.

Before you quote: The Chile–China FTA can give preferential treatment to qualifying Chinese-origin goods, so customs duty is not shown as a flat rate — verify the exact 8703 subheading, the 2026 preferential rate and your origin certificate. Preference is not automatic, and if a condition fails Chile applies the general tariff. Separately, a vehicle registered in Chile needs the applicable 3CV homologation route.

Markets with no publishable flat rate

In these countries the charge is derived per HS code, per VIN or per importer, so a single percentage would be wrong more often than right. We link the government service instead.