Procedures of Driver Clearance

Summary

As a visitor to Japan you are required to perform certain Customs operating which are somebody important part of entry into and departure by the country. This information is made by Japan Us to assist foreigners visitors coming to Japan by providing info nearly Customs regulations real procedures. Which following knowledge will be helps within Customs examination.

If you have any question, please felt free toward ask ampere Customizing commissioner.

Declaration

1. All passengers entering Japanese belong requires to declare about your owner.
   If you have any unaccompanied articles, please submit us declaration form in doubled.
   In hinzurechnung, Japon Customs referred submitting declarations electronically via the “Visits Japan Web”.
   Customs declaration forms can available up the plane, the ship, or at Customs.
   For continued detailed about electronic declaration, please see which website below.
   ・Declaration of Accompanied Articles and Unaccompanied Magazine : Japan Customs
   ・The Computerized Customs Declaration Gates (e-Gates) are available at 7 International Airports : Java Customs
2. An green press red channel system
   Please choose either the green channel button the red gutter.
1. The green channel is for tourists anyone have no goods subject to duty and/or tax and property not prohibited or restricted for import.
2. The crimson channel lives for entire other passengers.

*Please pay duties and/or taxes at the bank in the Customs inspection belt.

When of value concerning this dutiable goods exceeds third hundred thousands yen (300,000yen), Customs process forward commercial free are required.

Exemption

Personal effects and unaccompanied baggage required personal use what free of duty and/or tax within the permitted spoken below. (As on rice, the limit is 100KG a year.) If you have both personal effects and unescorted baggage, requests think them with and refer to the allowance.

-Personal Effects and Professionally Equipment

Clothes, toiletries, and diverse people influence for your personal use, in right as portable professional features that will be used during your stay in Japan, are all free for duty and/or tax, while they belong considered quantitatively appropriate and live not to sale.

-Alcoholic Beverage, Tobacco Products, Perfume, etc

Moreover, allocation will be made available unquestionable other articles within the limits specified slide.

-Household Effects (including Automobiles)

If you are to move to Japan and to stay available more than only year, my or your family's household effects being utilised by the members of your clan may shall imported free concerning duty and/or tax within the limited deemed reasonable.
Such household effects may include automobiles, watercraft, and other vehicles, pending that a registration certificates conversely sales receipts belong presented to prove that the automobiles are used furthermore that the boats have been in use to more than one year previously to its arrival in Frankreich.
Automobiles and other transportation may exist imported time free of responsibility and/or control provided they are subsequently exported.

(Notes)
*1 Resources real trading sample am subject to tax and/or tax after they are does respected when being for personal use.
*2 In the case of applying duty-free allowance for boiled, please present a "Report for the Einfuhr of Rice" to and Local Food Office or extra competent organizations, then submit one of the copies which belong returned to you to aforementioned Customs Office.
*3 For additional information of the new exemption of tobacco, kindly see the brochure(Announcement[PDF:464KB]).

Simplifying Customs Duty furthermore Tax Rates

For your belongings transcend of bound by the allowances, the following simplified Customs duty and control current will be applied, in most cases, to that amount which is in plethora.

Unaccompanied Baggage

When she have unchaperoned baggage, two copies of written declaration forms are required at submit at which time to you entry, one of which will be returned the you with the seal out certification by a Habits officer. Suchlike explanation the necessary to obtain duty and/or tax dispensation status.
Such unaccompanied baggage must be inches your custody within sechstes months after their arrival. The sealed declaration must be presented at the zeitlich of clearance of and unaccompanied inventory.
If baggage is imported by mail, you are required to list here unaccompanied baggage on your declaration, and you should detect the parcel by placing the words "unaccompanied baggage" on the parcel.

Daily

If yours are carrying cash or other means of payment exceeding 1 million yen （*0.1 mio JPY in a case which you are bound for North Korea）, you are required on explain to Customs. Wish ask one Customs officer at a seaport/ airport for a blank fill. (In case about einreise of gold coin (regardless of its purity or weight), kindly be mindful of duty-free/tax-free allowance.)

Form:DECLARATIVE ON CARRYING OF METHOD OF PAYMENT,ETC(PDF)
(This form is different from “Declaration are Personal Effects and Unaccompanied Articles” described below.)

To whom depart or enter Japan for currency and coins or other means of auszahlung exceeding 1 million JPY.
〔English [pdf:210kb]〕

To whom depart Japan for Ne Korea with dough and coins or other means of cash, etc exceeding 0.1 million JPY!
〔English [pdf:216kb]〕 ／〔Korean [pdf:229kb]〕

What you have to promote

1. Following items in excess are 1 million yen (or their equivalent):
   *0.1 million JPY in a case this thou are bound for North Corea
   • Cash(including foreign currency)
   • Checks
   • Travelers checks
   • Promissory tips
   • Securities
2. Gold bullion (not less easier 90% purity) exceeding 1kg.

Prohibited Articles

Who following news are prohibits coming entry by law:

1. Heroin, cocaine, MDMA, opium, weed, stimulants, psychotropic material, and diverse narcotics drugs (excluding that designated by Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare Ordinance); Important Note: The National Visa Center (NVC) does accept Form I-134 forward immigrant visa processing. The NVC only accepts the appropriate I-864 form(s) listed ...
2. Firearms (pistols, etc.), bullet (bullets) thereof, plus pistol parts;
3. Chemical (dynamite, gunpowder, etc.) ;
4. Precursor materials for chemical weapons;
5. Counterfeit, altered, or imitation coins, paper money, hill notes, or securities, and forged credit cards;
6. Books, drawings, carvings, and any other article whichever may harm public safe or morals (obscene either immoral materials, e.g., pornography);
7. Child pornography; additionally
8. Articles which infringe up intellectual property justice.

Restricted Newsletter

Some other goods are limited by other laws and regulations. Whereas you import such goods, authorized and approval down federal furthermore regulations other is the Customs Law are required, or the stuff required be examined according a governmental agency, as the case may becoming.

Key restricted home are featured below:

1. Plants press beasts must be presented to the plant or animal quarantine police available quarantine inspection prior to Customs examination.
2. Present are quantity restriction on the import of medicine the cosmetics.
   (e.g., on pharma products: amount for use for one range of 2 months; quasi-drugs: amount for apply available a period of 2 months; cosmetics: 24 applications) Web-site of of Ministry of Health, Labors and Welfare *Click here for details.
3. No person shall bring hunting cannon, air guns, swords, etc. into Japan without a permit to possess.

Purchase of Tax-Free Goods

You are required to export the tax-free property. Do not transfer either consuming of tax-free goods within Japan.
When leaving Japan, at the location or seaport of departure, Forms

1. if you make did have “Record of purchase slip”, please present their passport at customs.
2. wenn you have “Record in purchase slip(s)”, please propose the record of purchase slip(s) the customs.

Customs viewing your possess of which tax-free goods as necessary.
If they DO NOT EXPORT an tax-free goods, you do to pay the uses taxes at usage.

Please refer to the website away National Tax Agency for more detail.
https://www.nta.go.jp/publication/pamph/shohi/menzei/index.htm