My bro is on a vacation in Hong Kong and he just called me. I told him to bring back some JDM goodie's for me. He told me every junk yard he been to, there's at least 3 ITR chillen and waiting to get chop up . Anyways, my question is, if anyone here know how much the total is going to cost me to ship few rhd ITR to US. I know there custom fee, tax and all that stuff. I got the hook up for shipping dismantle part, but they said they don't ship car. Have anyone here ever shipped one back. I just wanna get an idea of how much it going to cost and if anyone here got the hook up for it. Let me know. I wanna save some ITR and give them better home in US,lol. A complete ITR cost around $2,000-$3,000 USD. That hella cheap. some of them come modded too, with ARC intake, Mugen exhaust and Spoon wheel. He e-mailed me some picture from a used car magazine from HK, I'll load some picture up later. Well just let me know, if ya got the hook up to ship a car over.
Thanks.

 

Google FTW:

http://www.google.com/search?h...earch

http://www.haulingdepot.com/in...g.htm
http://www.shipmyvehicle.com/I....aspx

 

Thanks

 

shipping a full car will cost between $3k-$5k depending upon value and company used.

 

information given to you below are not correct.
you do not ship one car. the cost is stupid high. what you need is a 40 HQ container and put 4 cars in it. if you need more info just let me know. im in the shipping/trucking business. all i do are pull containers out of the san pedro/long beach harbor.

 

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you do not ship one car. the cost is stupid high. what you need is a 40 HQ container and put 4 cars in it. if you need more info just let me know. im in the shipping/trucking business. all i do are pull containers out of the san pedro/long beach harbor. </TD></TR></TABLE>

So what is the rough estimate for 4 compact size car in a 40HQ container? Including custom fee and tax.

 

give this people a call. they will give you a rate and will ask you couple of question. i.e. hazmat. China Container Line LTD. #310-725-0500 and ask for Jackie Ming. keep me posted. for other service such as trucking from harbor to dock/warehouse i'll be able to assist you with that.

 

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Thanks, bro. I'll give them a call later tomorrow. I'll keep you update on it.

 

I personally think your full of ****.

9 out of 10 times, the exporters get the **** before it even hits the yards.

This could be that one time though...

 

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9 out of 10 times, the exporters get the **** before it even hits the yards.

This could be that one time though...</TD></TR></TABLE>


Hong Kong junk yard is fluided with JDM part. Why? I don't even know why. That what I seen before, when I went back to HK, and that what my brother telling me now. They have a recycler magazine that come out once a week, call Hot Machine. The Yard here seem to sell it to local, instead of exporter. Plus all the large JDM exporter get there **** from Japan. I mean HK got alot of good ****, but there not as cheap as Japan. Well I'm not shipping part back, Im planning on shipping the whole car, car that they sale to local from HK junkyard.

 

This pic from the magazine I was talkin about.



The red one is only $4,871 USD.

 

i think your a little late on this stuff and overall cost will be $50-$65k ball park number including your shipping dock to dock with 4 vehicle if its price is based on average $4871.

 

The red one says its a 94 Integra. A little too early to be a Type R...

 

there are a plethora of "jdm" cars in areas other than japan. Singapore and China both have very large amounts of these cars, but the biggest difficulty is shipping without a doubt, a 40hq container is on average 5k+ and the price you are seeing at the yards is the price to buy them there, not FOB, FOB meaning freight on board as there are a large amount of fees and forms to LEAVE china or singapore. Now you wait a few weeks till the shipment hits port and boom impounded again until it clears stateside. Not only do you have to insure that every item is accounted for, and that NO item has violated shipping policies. Keep in mind the restrictions post 9/11 are insane, if any one of the cars still has the flare in it, boom your *** is fined and the cars are crushed, violation of hazardous materials and explosives. I forget the fee for cars or car parts but a small lets say "suitcase" size object will see around $150 for hitting land, then another $250 plus or minus as an inspection fee. Also, if the cars are being cut or dismantled a 40hq container is ridiculously oversized. Keep in mind the law also states that a car is a car is a car that runs. I don't know any other way to put that, but you take the drivetrain out and it's not a car anymore so you don't have to go hog wild with cutting the car up. Now, before you get any ideas, if the car is reassembled stateside (lets assume it was an itr) it is no longer an ITR produced by Honda. The itr produced by honda that was dissasembled no longer exists, and when its reassembled its now a (insert any name of car) by (your name) corporation. Meaning your *** is resonsible for any violations of DOT code and clean air violations, some people will tell you to just take a usdm vin tag off an integra about to be crushed and slap it on the integra, but if you ever get caught for that the world of monetary damage you will be in for is astronomical.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by rjgerolaga &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">i think your a little late on this stuff and overall cost will be $50-$65k ball park number including your shipping dock to dock with 4 vehicle if its price is based on average $4871. </TD></TR></TABLE> That's not correct, it'll be a **** ton but not 60k, more likely 30k plus or minus, alloting 5k for shipping and a 30% tax depending on what its declared as.

 

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Damn, that more then double of what it cost. Even if I resale it, I think i'll just break even in the end. I didn't expected to be that much. I was thinking shipping might cost about $10k-$15k for all 4 ride.

 

read what I wrote it's not 30k to ship the cars...

 

feel free to check out wtxglobal.com they have some of the most competitive container rates I've come across.

 

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Yea, I just saw that now. So as you were saying. Shipping a car over to slang, is not even worth my time and money? I didn't realize it till now. That **** sound differcult. Well ima look more into it, but if it what you are saying, then im straight with all that.

 

It is and it isn't worth it. If you spend the time to research the correct methods etc, talk to a lawyer about the importation loopholes on wether you can specify the dissasmbled cars as "scrap metal" it could be worth it. Seeing as how parting out a true jdm itr does has a hefty profit attached it may be worth it. Honestly it would PROBABLY be more economical to simply assemble an assortment of nose cuts and pack the container with them as the front end and seats are where the largest profit stems from.

 

in other words, it's not something you just want to blindly jump into, but if you are interested in importation, its a really self fulfilling line of work, the idea that what you offer people is impossible to obtain otherwise, and that you are the first person in an intire country to see something or use something is kind of nice for the ego

 

I am very well aware that 'jdm cars' are popular and can be located outside of Japan. The point was, why arent the exporters there in HK and exporting ****? They are in other places of the world sending stuff out...
It seems so simple...right?

And if 1 yard has 3 ITR's alone, 2 of them should be able to pay for your container fee's, and put money in your pocket? People pay $1500+ for some fenders, a hood and some headlights, the engine swap is another $3000+, seats...$700+ id be keeping this a secret if I were you.

Theres something somewhere that something isn't being said...

 

Thanks for the info. although I dont think im gonna have enough warehouse space to put all that front end. I will definitly look more into. I am interested in the import export business, but i still have alot of exsperience to learn. Ima gonna be in Taiwan in October for a Import and export show for automotive parts. I'll see what I can dig up then.

 

Oh sure, communist economical system. There ya go. Plus very few owners of junkyards are fluent in another language and have access to mass freight systems. Same thing here, why aren't junkyards with tons of 350s exporting the parts to japan? It's just not something they view as neccessary. The junkyards in Hong Kong are completely happy doing what they do now, so the idea of hiring a fluent english speaking sales person with experience in logistics isn't exactly easy. Hence the advent of broker houses which do a substantial amount of exporting, you don't really think every single motor swap and front end cut you see listed in the states came from japan do you?

 

ah taiwan is great, they are probably one of the fastest growing "advanced" manufacturing areas as far as automotive stuff goes. They have a very similair mentality to japan when it comes to quality and several LARGE production houses in the US use them for production of mass applicable systems. I bet you'd never guess who..... Oh, and for anyone who assumes taiwan or china makes bad products, keep in mind Top Fuel uses them for production along with several other HUGE name companies.