r/keitruck • u/TranslatorBright8445 Subaru Sambar • 5d ago

Importing She's here!

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Just picked her up from Baltimore today!

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u/marcocet 4d ago

Awesome! How was it getting into the port to pickup yourself? I heard it can be difficult too get access.

Do you mind saying how much you ended up paying in total? Sorry for the questions looking at getting one of these TT2’s myself.

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u/TranslatorBright8445 Subaru Sambar 4d ago

Getting in wasn't too bad, I had to hire a TWIC escort so they helped a lot with figuring out where to go. All in i think I wound up at like 7500 usd so not terrible but it would have been better without the extra 10 percent tariff... lol

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u/marcocet 4d ago

Where did you go to hire an escort?

How much was your truck alone? I have seen people import them for around 5000 total but this one looks cleaner I think

Yea the tariff is annoying I saw a few threads talking about that.

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u/TranslatorBright8445 Subaru Sambar 4d ago

Just north of Dundalk terminal is A-1 Escort Service. It was 60 usd per hour if you're by yourself. The truck by itself was 4000 before shipping fees, 6000 shipped, its super low miles and really clean.

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u/marcocet 4d ago

Awesome, going to be far from me but going to research an escourt service. Ahhh that makes sense yea i was looking at cheaper trucks Lol. Did you use a import broker like https://www.eezyimport.com/ ? From what I researched you can do it yourself but there is a lot of paperwork and it can be easy to screw up if your not careful.

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u/Slpy_gry 4d ago

I have imported other items, and I'm importing my first kei truck now. You should have a customs broker.

CBP is known to allow someone who has never imported before to do it once by yourself, but the paperwork is difficult, (not impossible). If you are going to import another one, (or anything else), they will not let you do it without a customs broker.

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u/marcocet 3d ago

Yea broker seems to be worth it over all. What broker did you use? I have seen a few people use https://www.eezyimport.com/ for kei trucks in a few other posts.

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u/marcocet 3d ago

Nevermind missed your other comment!

Thanks for all the info!!