What is the process with Japanese car importing?
There are a lot of steps involved in the Japanese car importing process that combine to make quite a complicated process but don’t panic, if you pick the correct import company you won’t be responsible for these steps, they will be completed for you. Some of them aren’t obvious steps but none of them can be overlooked if you want things to run smoothly. Once the vehicle is loaded onto the vessel, it may be necessary to deregister the vehicle in Japan. Without doing this you won’t be able to register it in the UK and you’ll be left devastated at the docks. Don’t threat, your shipping company is likely to arrange this for you. Shipping documents for shipping of the car and the legal documents associated with registering the car in the UK must be completed correctly and to certain timescales. These documents must then be produced at UK customs before they can allow the vehicle into the country, but not before clearance is gained for your car. Most of us wouldn’t have the first idea of whe
