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Import duty from Germany to Japan

PartialCurrentdataset 2026-08-08verified 2026-09-22

Calculates source-backed duty, tax and fees. Not fully verified: origin / preference, trade remedies, quota handling. Affected results are marked conditional, need user input, or show unresolved components.

Calculate Germany → Japan

Where the goods were made. Shipping from a country does not make them originate there.

Searches the destination’s official tariff text. Not sure? Use the guided HS code finder.

Don’t know the code? Use the guided HS code finder

A FOB price does not include international freight or insurance. The purchase price is not automatically the customs value; LandedGrid adjusts it to the destination’s valuation basis.

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Customs valuation

CIF-type basis — transport and insurance to the border are included

Transaction value including transport-related expenses up to arrival at the port of import and insurance (CIF basis).

Customs Tariff Law, Arts. 4 to 4-9 · Japan Customs

Customs exchange rate

Japan Customs publishes weekly customs exchange rates (Sunday to Saturday), set from the average market rate of the week two weeks before the import declaration (Customs Tariff Law Art. 4-7). LandedGrid ingests the official weekly file.

Applicable date: Week of the import declaration.

Taxes and government fees on import

  • Consumption tax (national, 7.8%)7.8%

    Base: customs value + duty + additional duties + trade remedies + excise

    Consumption Tax Act

  • Local consumption tax (2.2%)2.2%

    Base: customs value + duty + additional duties + trade remedies + excise

    Local Tax Act

Low-value consignments

  • Goods with a total customs value of ¥10,000 or less are exempt from customs duty and consumption tax, except for listed goods such as leather bags, knitted apparel and leather footwear.

    In force from 2000-01-01 · Customs Tariff Law Art. 14(xviii)

What the origin — Germany — changes

The standard (MFN / third-country) rate applies to goods from Germany unless a measure for that origin says otherwise. Three kinds of measure depend on origin, and the calculator above resolves each for your tariff code and date:

  • Preferences. Where Japan grants a preferential rate to Germany under a trade agreement or scheme, it is shown as a separate scenario. It applies only if the goods meet the rules of origin and you hold proof. How preferential origin works.
  • Trade remedies. Anti-dumping, countervailing and emergency duties are imposed by cabinet order and are not in the tariff schedule LandedGrid ingests. About trade remedies.
  • Additional tariffs. Japan applies no general origin-based additional tariffs beyond trade remedies in the data LandedGrid holds.

What LandedGrid does not calculate for this destination

  • preferences: EPA rates are covered where the partner country is unambiguous. GSP/LDC preferences and group agreements whose membership is not yet ingested are not offered.
  • trade remedies: Anti-dumping, countervailing and emergency duties are imposed by cabinet order and are not in the tariff schedule LandedGrid ingests.
  • quotas: Tariff-quota (TQ) lines are shown with their out-of-quota rate. In-quota treatment requires a quota certificate and is never assumed.
  • excise: Liquor tax, tobacco tax and petroleum taxes are not calculated.
  • regulatory: The tariff schedule’s “Law” column flags other statutes (food sanitation, plant protection and others). The requirements themselves are not detailed.
  • The tariff schedule pages state that they are “for reference only, not for official use”. LandedGrid treats them as the authoritative published schedule but every result links the source edition.

Full capability matrix

Other origins into Japan

From Germany elsewhere

Product headings in Japan

Customs value · Exchange rate · Low value · Import tax · Trade agreements · Sources

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