I am from India and I want to took my bike from India to Taiwan so can you tell me about the requirements of the documents and what are the things required for import bike. And approximately how much money need to spend on this.
Thanks in advance.
Is this a motorcycle or bicycle
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The latter you can just put into a box and take it on the plane as checked luggage.
Motorcycle
Probably not worth the hassle and cost…
The import taxes for motorcycles include customs duty, commodity tax, business tax, and trade promotion service fee, with the following rates and calculation formulas:
Customs Duty = Customs value of goods (usually CIF price) Ă— Tax rate
- For engines over 50cc but not exceeding 250cc and over 500cc: 20%
- For engines not exceeding 50cc and over 250cc but not exceeding 500cc: 18%
Commodity Tax = (Customs value of goods + Customs duty) Ă— 17%
Business Tax = (Customs value of goods + Customs duty + Commodity tax) Ă— 5%
Trade Promotion Service Fee = Customs value of goods Ă— 0.04%
Taiwan’s motorcycle environmental regulations are said to be the strictest in the world. Budget NT$100K for inspection, but the likelihood of your motorcycle passing the inspection is low…
As TT rightfully said, it’s really not worth the hassle, especially the cost, to import any vehicle into Taiwan as the expenses incurred will be more than the initial cost of your bike. Leave your beloved “basanti” with family or friends or sell it off if you’re planning to stay long term in Taiwan. Buy a second hand Scooter here…it will give you years of good service and peace of mind.
Smuggle it here piece by piece. Kind of like The Great Escape in reverse.
Is that a clutch in your pants, or are you just pleased to see me?
Grab it and find out?
Saw a brand-new Enfield Classic 500 in Taitung a few years back, but the owner wasn’t there, having dropped it off for repairs, so couldn’t question him about it. Looked like something from an alt-world version of a classic British Twin.
Sure, and it won’t be road legal, means you’ll get pulled over and the bike confiscated. To import it and have it be legal, titles, and all that, it must pass various inspections and such, not to mention shipping cost. It’s worth it for a car, but not a motorcycle. Taiwan doesn’t allow vehicle modifications AT ALL (with few exceptions). Enforcement is another thing altogether. You see those fake EU plates because importing vehicles yourself is expensive, and those plate says you’re just so rich that you could import a VW from Germany and go through all the hassle (even if that’s not actually what happened).
100k buys you a gogoro, or at least a brand new scooter of almost all make/model (not the yellow/red plates of course). If your bike falls into yellow/red plate category, expect further costs. You must have held a white plate license for 1 year before you can have yellow/red plate license.
Jesus Christ man it’s a joke.
A pretty obvious one at that