Vehicle import costs, the easy way

Know your landed cost before you buy.

Paste the price from any Japanese exporter listing. Clearie itemises every duty, tax and fee Jamaica Customs will charge, in seconds.

US$

Free · No sign-up · Uses the published JCA dealer rates, revised April 2020

Toyota Aqua · 2021 · 1.5 L hybridEstimated landed cost
Hybrid · 45%
J$2,334,760from US$9,800 CIF at J$160 per US$1
CIF value
J$1,568,000
Import duty (20%)
J$313,600
GCT (20%)
J$376,320
Levy and customs fee
J$76,840
Total customs charges
J$766,760
How it works

Three inputs. One honest number.

No account, no PDF to decode. Just the figure the wharf will ask you for.

  1. 01

    Paste the price

    Enter the CIF total from BE FORWARD, SBT or any exporter. Paying FOB? Add your own shipping and we handle the rest.

  2. 02

    Describe the vehicle

    Type, fuel and engine size pick the duty band. Hybrids and electric vehicles get their own rates.

  3. 03

    See every charge

    Duty, SCT, GCT, the levy and the customs fee, compounded the way customs does it. Copy the link and send it to your dealer.

What's inside

Every charge, itemised.

Jamaica Customs stacks five separate charges on a vehicle. Clearie shows each one and the rate behind it.

Import duty
of the CIF value, set by the vehicle category.
0% to 30%
Special consumption tax
on CIF plus import duty. Engine size and fuel move this the most.
0% to 30%
GCT
on CIF plus duty plus SCT.
20%
Environmental levy
of the CIF value on every import.
0.5%
Customs administrative fee
flat, for new and used vehicles respectively.
J$66,000 / J$69,000

Not included: broker, wharfage, trucking, registration, licensing and fitness. Browse the full rate table

For dealers

Do special imports? Get listed.

Clearie is building a directory of certified dealers who source vehicles to order. Buyers arrive with a price in mind and a landed-cost estimate in hand. Listing is free while the directory is in beta.

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Estimate while you browse.

Open a listing on an exporter site and the landed cost will be right there, under the price.

  • Reads the price, engine size and fuel from the listing
  • Built for BE FORWARD, SBT Japan and Car From Japan
  • Runs in your browser. Nothing you view is sent anywhere
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beforward.jp › toyota › aqua
Exporter listing2021 Toyota Aqua S1,500 cc · Hybrid · 62,000 kmUS$9,800 CIF Kingston
Clearie · landed in JamaicaJ$2.33M
Hybrid · 45% aggregate duty · dealer ratesBreakdown
Good to know

Questions importers ask.

Free · No sign-up

Don't guess at the wharf. Know the number first.

Paste a listing price and leave with every customs charge, a total in Jamaican dollars, and a link to send your dealer.