This article is dedicated to the formalities relating to the importing into France of a private vehicle (car or motorcycle) that is subject to registration and imported for personal use.<\/p>\n
Customs duty<\/strong>: this designates a tax on imported goods. This tax applies when the goods cross over a border. The customs duty may be a lump sum or calculated as a percentage of the price of the goods.<\/p>\n Tax<\/strong>: this refers to value added tax (VAT), which is currently 20%.<\/p>\n The importing of a vehicle without the payment of duty and taxes is subject to specific requirements.<\/p>\n Conditions<\/strong>:<\/p>\n If your main residence is in France, you can benefit from an exemption, i.e. the non-payment of the duties and taxes normally due in the event of importing a vehicle from outside Europe, provided the following conditions are satisfied:<\/p>\n Procedure<\/strong>:<\/p>\n Go to\u00a0the relevant customs office<\/a>\u00a0for your new residence with the following documents:<\/p>\n Note<\/em>: a\u00a0translation<\/a>\u00a0of these last two documents may be requested.<\/p>\n Once these formalities have been completed, French customs will give you a stamped copy of your inventory and a\u00a0Certificate No. 846 A<\/a>\u00a0that you will need to include with the documents to be uploaded to the ANTS site within a\u00a0maximum period of 4 months<\/strong>\u00a0in order to register your vehicle in France.<\/p>\n Duties and taxes will be payable if:<\/p>\n The procedure for declaring your vehicle to customs is fairly similar to the previous case, but you will need to go through a registered customs clearance agent and provide additional documents if:<\/p>\n Customs duty and taxes apply to the vehicle\u2019s value excluding tax as shown on the purchase invoice, and can be increased by transportation costs,options or special equipment. In the event of doubt, French customs retains the power to assess the value declared within the limits specified by the regulations.<\/p>\n Customs duty is 10%, to which taxes must be added, for most foreign countries, VAT at 20% on the price excluding taxes, increased by customs charges, whatever the mileage and age of the vehicle (*).<\/p>\n Notes:<\/em><\/p>\n Import duties and taxes are paid on demand and must be paid before the removal of the vehicle.<\/p>\n You can pay:<\/p>\n After the customs clearance process, the customs office will give you the following documents:<\/p>\n At this point, you can use your vehicle in France for 4 months with its foreign or transit number plates if you are insured, and can justify its customs clearance with a Certificate no. 846 A.<\/p>\n Note:<\/em><\/p>\n Our next article will be dedicated to the\u00a0R\u00e9ception \u00e0 Titre Isol\u00e9<\/em>\u00a0(Single Vehicle Approval) necessary to register your vehicle imported from outside the European Union in France. See you again soon.<\/p>\n If you wish to add any information to this article, share your personal experience or obtain additional information, please leave a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This article is dedicated to the formalities relating to the importing into France of a private vehicle (car or motorcycle) that is subject to registration and imported for personal use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":62341,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1451,1452,1425,1426,1429],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-b2c","category-early-stage-b2c","category-france","category-import","category-insights"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage-wp.eurococ.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage-wp.eurococ.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage-wp.eurococ.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage-wp.eurococ.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage-wp.eurococ.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stage-wp.eurococ.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage-wp.eurococ.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stage-wp.eurococ.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage-wp.eurococ.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stage-wp.eurococ.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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In what cases must duties and taxes be paid?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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How are payments made?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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\nYou can, however, check with the customs office if they offer this service.<\/li>\n\n
\nAlternatively, you can take out a special type of \u2018French frontier insurance<\/a>\u2019 as specified by article\u00a0R 211-24<\/a>\u00a0of the above-mentioned code, when you arrive from a country outside the European Economic Area. This insurance can be obtained from any customs office located in the metropolitan territory of the \u2018frontier insurance\u2019 coinsurance grouping. It can be taken out for a period of 30 or 90 days and can only be renewed once for a period of the same duration as that of the initial subscription.<\/div>\n