Temporary vehicle import to Zambia
A visa and a vehicle are different law: the person and the car are given their terms by different authorities, and those terms need not match.
- Maximum term
- 365
- How the term is counted
- per entry
- Carnet de Passages
- Not required
- Extension
- Not available
ZRA’s general temporary importation rule allows up to 12 months for goods, including vehicles, but tourists are usually issued a free Customs Import Permit (CIP) that is valid only for the length of their immigration stay (often up to 30 days) and must be renewed on re‑entry. Longer stays require a paid Temporary Import Permit (TIP) under the 12‑month framework.
"The maximum period allowed for goods to remain in Zambia under Temporal Importation is twelve (12) months. … The period of all extensions including the initial period shall not exceed 12 months." — Zambia Revenue Authority, Temporary Importations. (This is the general ceiling of the temporary import regime. A separate ZRA page on tourists' vehicles describes processing via the Integrated Border Declaration Form (IBDF) — "used for entry of motor vehicles temporarily imported into Zambia by visitors and tourists for their own use" — but gives no specific period for a tourist vehicle; in practice the border officer sets the period to match the driver's stay. So 12 months is an upper bound, not a guaranteed period.)
Source: www.zra.org.zm
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