Trade route
Import duty from Malaysia to Japan
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 Malaysia → Japan
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 — Malaysia — changes
The standard (MFN / third-country) rate applies to goods from Malaysia 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 Malaysia 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.
Related
Other origins into Japan
From Malaysia elsewhere
Product headings in Japan
Customs value · Exchange rate · Low value · Import tax · Trade agreements · Sources
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