Germany → Federation of BiH car import calculator

Dealer's charge for filing the export with German customs and getting the EUR.1 stamped. Some include it, some charge more; the default is an estimate, so ask for the price in writing. Without EUR.1 you pay 15% duty.

The plates are valid only as long as this insurance. The default, €80, buys about 15 days at September 2026 broker prices; ask the insurer. You get a paper Doppelkarte, not an eVB number, and a green card: check that Bosnia (BIH) is covered on it.

The registration office fee for export plates, €31.40 under the federal fee schedule (GebOSt no. 221.3). The car needs a valid HU (TÜV) for the whole plate period, shown at the office.

Made by a private plate maker, not included in the office fee; ADAC puts them at about €20 to €40. Export plates have a black border and a red field with the expiry date. Yellow short-term plates are not valid outside Germany.

Owed for at least one month, even when the plates are valid for less; worked out from engine size, CO₂ and year when you press Calculate.

Your bank's fee for an international transfer from BiH. UniCredit Bank d.d. (FBiH, from 18 September 2026) charges 0.40% online or 0.70% at a branch, at most 900 KM, plus 1% if it converts KM into euros; the default is its online fee on about €23,800. Enter your own bank's price. A resident may take no more than about €10,000 in cash out of BiH without the entity Ministry of Finance's approval, so agree a bank transfer with the dealer before you sign.

German pumps averaged €2.35 for petrol and €2.46 for diesel on 21 September 2026 (EU Weekly Oil Bulletin); Austria, Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia were cheaper, so fill up after the border.

Tied to the plate number. The 18-day wait for vignettes bought online applies only to the annual and 2-month ones. The Tauern and Karawanken sections below are charged separately.

Tauern and Katschberg tunnels, one trip for a car: €15.00 in 2026 (ASFINAG).

Into Slovenia. One trip for a car: €9.00 in 2026 (ASFINAG).

Class 2A, €16.00 in 2026 on the DARS e-vignette site; tied to the plate number.

Category I car: €1.00 at Bregana plus €11.90 to €12.70 from Zagreb istok to the Slavonski Brod exits, on the HAC price list; paid at the toll gates.

Estimate for the motorway sections on the way; each motorway operator publishes its own price list.

Invoice price plus the fuel for the whole drive and the tolls abroad, which stand in here for the transport to the border that the law adds. Counting all the fuel slightly overstates the duty when there is no proof of EU origin. If customs doubt a low price, they first ask for proof and only then use another method, in the order the law sets: first the accepted value of an identical car, then of a similar one.

Leave at 0 unless you expect customs to change the value. It changes duty and VAT.

With EUR.1 the duty is 0%. Without it, 15% of the customs value. An origin statement on the invoice can replace EUR.1 up to €6,000, or at any value when the seller is an approved exporter. Origin follows the origin rules, not where you buy: a car built in Japan, China, Korea, the USA or the UK cannot get a valid EUR.1 and pays 15%, and an EU-built car qualifies only if the exporter can document its origin. A Council of Ministers decision (Službeni glasnik BiH 22/26) lowers or suspends the duty on new electric, hybrid and CNG/LPG cars until 31 December 2026. It covers new cars only; a used car without a proof of origin pays 15%, or 5% if it is fully electric.

17% of the customs value, the duty and the costs up to the first destination in BiH. Paid in KM at the customs terminal before the car is released.

At the border the car goes into transit to an inland customs terminal; the agent files the transit and the JCI. Homologation happens before final clearance. The default is an estimate: get two or three quotes.

The 2022 price list (Službeni glasnik BiH 50/22): homologation 170 KM plus VAT, 198.90 KM, the CoC check 35.10 KM with VAT and the 10 KM state tax: 244.00 KM with a CoC, 267.40 KM with a manufacturer's certificate instead. A used petrol or diesel car must meet at least Euro 5 (Službeni glasnik BiH 23/19), or it cannot be cleared or registered.

Every station charges 47 KM plus VAT, 54.99 KM, for a passenger car. In FBiH petrol and diesel cars also take the EKO exhaust test, 32 KM (petrol) or 36 KM (diesel); hybrids and electric cars do not. FBiH MUPs accept only inspections from FBiH stations.

Priced by engine power in kW (in FBiH as written in the registration certificate) and bonus-malus class. A first policy for the imported car is in the neutral class: over 110 kW, 887.02 KM under Republika Srpska's joint tariff (2025) and 883 KM under the last FBiH agency tariff (2023). FBiH insurers now apply their own approved tariffs, so get a quote.

Sarajevo Canton law: cars up to 7 years old pay at least 80 KM up to 1,600 cm³, 100 KM to 1,800, 150 KM to 2,000 and 250 KM above; older cars at least 50 KM. Municipalities set the final amount. Sarajevo Canton gives hybrids no relief; every other canton has its own law.

FBiH decree of 2016: 30 KM × a factor by engine size (1.60 up to 1,000 cm³, 2.00 to 1,600, 2.50 to 2,000, 4.67 to 2,500, 7.00 above). Hybrids and gas-powered cars pay 25% more; there is no discount for hybrids.

2.00 KM a month per equivalent inhabitant, times what a car counts for. FBiH: 0.83 for a car running on oil products, 19.92 KM a year (Službene novine FBiH 46/07); electric cars fall outside it, which is not confirmed in practice. RS: 1.40 for petrol or diesel, 0.80 for a hybrid, 0.40 for an electric car, so 33.60, 19.20 or 9.60 KM (Službeni glasnik RS 53/11 and the 2025 code list). Our calculation from the acts.

FBiH decree of 2011 (Službene novine FBiH 14/11): 15 KM × fuel factor (petrol and diesel 1.0, electric 0.2) × engine factor (0.95 for 751 to 1,400 cm³, 1.00 to 2,000, 1.20 to 4,000; 1.00 for electric) × age factor (0.90 up to 5 years, 0.95 for 6 to 8, 1.00 for 9 or 10, 1.10 for 11 to 15, more for older cars).

Sticker 5 KM (Službeni glasnik BiH 20/24), the 8 KM Pomoć-informacije road-help fee paid to JP Ceste FBiH, and the Sarajevo Canton administrative tax, 20 KM at a first registration and 10 KM later. Other cantons have their own tax.

First registration only: plates 20 KM and the two certificates 5 KM each, the same in both entities (Službeni glasnik BiH 20/24).