輸入ガイド

各国への日本車輸入の仕組み — ルール、費用、出典。

• アメリカ

  Cars at least 25 years old — counted from the month of manufacture — can be imported without meeting US safety (FMVSS) standards. Younger Japanese-market cars are, in practice, not importable.

• カナダ

  Vehicles 15 years or older, counted from the date of manufacture, can be imported from Japan outside the RIV program. Quebec does not register right-hand-drive cars under 25 years old.

• イギリス

  There is no age ban. Cars under 10 years old need an IVA test (and possibly modifications); older cars need an MOT and DVLA registration. Most verdicts are therefore “conditional”.

• オーストラリア

  Vehicles built more than 25 years ago can be imported under the “older vehicles” pathway. Younger vehicles are only possible through the SEVS register and a Registered Automotive Workshop.

• ニュージーランド

  Eligibility depends on frontal-impact and exhaust-emissions standards by model code. MOTORAVI shows a conditional verdict with a checklist until model-code rules are added.

• 香港

  Hong Kong drives on the left and takes right-hand-drive Japanese cars, but used imports must meet its emission and noise standards — in practice recent cars — and pay a steep first registration tax.

• UAE（ドバイ経由の再輸出）

  The UAE does not register right-hand-drive cars, so MOTORAVI treats Dubai as a trade hub: traders buy Japanese cars into a Jebel Ali free zone and re-export them, mainly to Africa and Central Asia.

• ケニア

  Kenya's 8-year rule admits only right-hand-drive cars first registered within the last 8 years, after a pre-export inspection in Japan. Taxes are high and are assessed on KRA's own retail-price schedule.

• タンザニア

  Tanzania has no age limit for right-hand-drive cars, but excise duty rises steeply for cars 8 years and older.

• ウガンダ

  Uganda bans cars 15 or more years old and charges an environmental levy from 8 years. Cars land at Mombasa and travel inland to Kampala.

• ザンビア

  Zambia has no age limit for right-hand-drive cars, but adds a surtax on cars older than 5 years and a carbon emission surtax. Cars usually land at Dar es Salaam and are trucked to Lusaka.