How much does Cuban Customs charge to import cars in 2024? The first thing to be clear about is that to import motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers, motorcycle bodies, cabins, chassis, and frames for commercial purposes, legal entities in Cuba must have authorization from the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Investment and meet the technical requirements established by the Ministry of Transportation.
As a natural person residing in Cuba, you may only import certain items as part of your accompanied or unaccompanied baggage, or through shipments. For example, electric mopeds and motorcycles, motor vehicle parts and accessories, tires and rims, and light trailers.
Only commercial companies that are legally authorized and legal entities in Cuba can import motor vehicles that do not run on electricity, such as combustion-engine cars. This means that as an individual, you will need to import your car to the island through a licensed agency.
If you are a natural person, you may only import electric motors and their accessories when replacing or repowering a combustion engine vehicle and converting it to electric.
Cuban Customs and the importation of cars
Several companies from Miami handle these car shipments to Cuba. For example, last December, Maravana Cargo, a U.S. government-licensed company, spoke about Cuban customs fees for car imports.
The company's founder, Cuban-American Alejandro Martínez, shared Then, on social media, they shared details of the process and the costs involved. Among the highest expenses is the payment to Cuban Customs for the importation of vehicles, which varies depending on the type, year, and other characteristics of each car.
Martínez says the price can range from $20.000 to $56.000 per unit, and that he doesn't know the exact criteria Customs uses to calculate it.
From the Maravana company they indicate that they earn about $8.000 for each vehicle that they export to Cuba, which include transportation costs, insurance, management and profit margin.
The executive insisted that the Cuban government does not charge a fixed rate for shipping and that he doesn't know how Customs calculates the exact value it imposes on car imports to Cuba. However, the price this businessman offered should guide those interested.
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The country with the most old cars in the world is a museum of old cars. On the other hand, they don't allow light cars older than five years. It's incomprehensible. The day a boatman can trade his 5 car for a 45 one, Cuba's old cars will disappear. The environment will be cleaned up, noise will decrease, etc. Very few Cubans can afford a car worth more than $2000.
So they allow people to put together a rikimbili consisting of a DA engine, a B8 differential, and a Polish body. You take it to the vehicle registry and they legalize a potential mass murderer on the road, when anyone in their right mind knows that any imported car is safer, no matter how old it is, but they ask for a huge amount of $$$ for a car that is already totally devalued.
The excessive abuse by the Cuban government regarding the importation of a car is incredible. They want to earn more than everyone else. Do you know how much Arnold paid to import a war tank from Austria to the USA? 20 thousand dollars. Now there's a comparison with the absurd...
Can you bring a car to Cuba without an intermediary? I've lived in Germany since 1986 and will return to Cuba in 2024.
Apparently not.
I believe that those of us who work hard in the fields and lack resources, whatever the reason, should have the opportunity to have a car for our old age. We won't have them at these prices. Remember that in Cuba, no one is paid in dollars.
This country is really a money laundering center for I don't know who, but it's notable that it is just that. A money laundering center for both high-ranking Cuban officials and those who ship cars to this country.
Only in Cuba are cars paid for like this, money upon money. And we're not talking about 10000 USD, we're talking about more than
20 USD. In which country is this done?
It's a disgrace that this Cuban government allows this after so many years of profiting from a transparent and clean government. Cuban importers are their families, and those who facilitate this are also their close circle of supposed friends.
It is truly disrespectful to the population who no longer know how to survive the enormous need that exists here.
Cuba is in a sorry state and the people are the second culprits who allow it.
I believe the importer should issue a price list so that individuals who want to import a car can choose according to their budget and avoid wasting time.
It's time to allow transit, which, even though they're used, benefits the complex transportation situation we're suffering from, and no one cares about prices. If we continue to change unreasonable prices, then it's because they don't want many of us who walk—the vast majority—to continue riding in old, incomfortable, and uncomfortable Almendrones, with high prices. And how many accidents occur on our roads every day due to poor, old, and obsolete transportation that doesn't change. This decision continues to worsen the situation. So let's think about this beautiful, noble, and generous people, and how before we die we'd at least like to ride a new Semi-Truck.
As long as these prices continue, the average Cuban will never have a means of transportation; we will continue to live in the same misery.
The corruption of the top brass and the managers of the importers plus the tariffs is a profitable business. In the US, with $8000 you can buy up to two good second-hand cars, but the Cuban government insists on exploiting the entry of these cars, taking up to 2 times the value of the cost to fill their pockets and continue living off their damned, corrupt and violating laws. Not even the worst drug traffickers in this world do anything to all those who are part of this cataclysmic plan.
You have to take into account the payment to the crab when collecting customs, which is not a small amount.
Cuba's abuse of both insiders and outsiders is a huge one. It's the only country in the world that, despite its critical financial situation, charges 10 times the cost of bringing a car into the country. CUBA... UNTIL WHEN?
It's a real abuse, they don't want Cubans to have a little bit of peace and happiness, that's all.
How could this man not know that detail? He also wouldn't know where the car arrives? Where do you pick it up? How many days does it take to arrive? etc etc. Is it that he doesn't want to drop the Cuban Bomb? That when you go to revoke it, they'll set your pocket on fire????