Every import broker in Europe publishes a calculator, and most of them are accurate. This page explains the stack they compute, links the national ones, and adds the line they leave out.
Pickups: if customs classifies an F-150, RAM or Silverado under the truck heading, duty is 22% rather than 10%. Confirm before bidding. Classics: a car over 30 years old may qualify as a collector's item at 0% duty and reduced VAT (7% in Germany), but only if it meets the criteria for originality and condition; a modified or heavily restored car may not.
A calculator prices the car you think you are buying. If the lot you won had a flood code on an earlier auction record, or the "clean" import on a Polish marketplace was a Copart salvage car two years ago, every line above still gets paid and the car is worth a fraction of the total. The cheapest item in the stack is the history check, and it is the only one that can change the decision rather than the price.
10% duty, 19% import VAT, §21 Vollgutachten. Brokers quote roughly 1.4× the US price landed.
10% duty, 21% VAT, BPM by CO2 (EVs exempt), RDW keuring.
10% duty, 3.1% or 18.6% excise (0% EVs), 23% VAT.
21% VAT; duty reported removed in 2026, confirm with customs.
10% duty (0% EVs), excise by engine and age, 20% VAT.
Excise by engine size and age; Poti handles most arrivals.
10% duty, 21% VAT, RAR individual approval.
12.5% duty, 20% VAT, homologation; container to Bar.
0% duty on US-origin goods since Aug 2025, 18% VAT.
10% duty, 20% TVA, RTI at €5,000 to €10,000.
No duty, 25% VAT, engangsavgift by weight and emissions.
Twenty-two country guides with taxes, ports, registration and the history check.
Clean, salvage, rebuilt, flood, junk. Issued by a US state, invisible in every European registry.
How it is checkedCopart and IAAI intake photos, damage codes and sale price, from every sale the car went through, not only the current lot.
How it is checkedReadings at US titles, registrations and inspections in date order. A reading below an earlier one is a rollback.
How it is checkedThe price paid for the car plus the cost of transport and insurance to the EU border. Duty is charged on that figure; VAT is charged on the customs value plus the duty.
No. Duty and import VAT are paid once, at the point of entry into the EU customs territory; the car then moves freely to the country of registration, which charges its own registration taxes.
A shared container consolidated by a broker is usually cheapest per car and is the norm for salvage cars that do not run. RoRo requires a running, driveable car and can be cheaper for a single vehicle to a major RoRo port such as Bremerhaven.
Brokers quote four to six weeks port to port for Northern Europe and six to ten weeks door to door for the Balkans and Bulgaria. Homologation adds weeks to months depending on the country.
Enter the VIN to see which US and Canadian records exist. The preview is free; the report is $19.99, once.