Local costs and import duties in Suriname

Once the ship has arrived in the port of Paramaribo or the plane has landed at the Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport/Zanderij and the VAT-free products have been cleared through customs in Suriname, you will receive a message that you can pick up your shipment from our agent Laparkan in Paramaribo. When picking up the goods you always have to pay the local costs. These local costs consist of the trade/customs costs excluding 8% VAT plus import duties.

Trade/customs costs Suriname

The handling/customs costs are the costs for unpacking your shipment, checking your Dutch or European products, preparing your shipment and clearing so that the products may be released into free circulation. In plain language, these are the costs incurred so that you can "finally" take home the products you have been waiting for.

Trade/customs costs in SRD are as follows(excluding 8% barrel);

-Air freight packages:
From 1 - 10 kg, 12.50 SRD per kg
From 11 - more kg, 10.00 SRD per kg

-Air freight trade shipments :
105USD Handling fee +
1kg - 99KG, one time USD35 or
100kg - more kg, 0.45USD per kg

-Sea freight packages :
SRD 0.40 SRD per liter (minimum SRD 25)

-Sea freight trade shipments:
105USD handling fee +
40USD per cbm

Import duties Suriname

Then import duties. Import duties are the taxes on products imported from abroad. These taxes are there to create a threshold by which Suriname tries to protect its own market from products from abroad. Because of this, products from Suriname should have an advantage in price over products that are imported. Because many products and goods come from outside Suriname, many products for sale in Sranang have to deal with these import taxes.

Below are most common import duty rates;

These import duty rates are always calculated over the CIF value (CIF value = value of goods + transport costs + (possible) transport insurance 2.0% over the invoice value).

Example calculation

This calculation is a sample calculation in Euro`s including all costs;

Suppose you want to buy a computer via Bol.com, worth € 800.00.
First of all, 21% VAT will be deducted, so that is €168.00.
Bol.com has no shipping costs from 20€ so that is €0.00
To get your order VAT-free purchased, checked, all documentation, packed seaworthy as 1 package and shipped from the Shop Plus Ship warehouse to Paramaribo you pay €63.30
Import duty (computer 18%) is €125.15
The handling/customs cost for this package (8KG) is 100 SRD + 8% VAT is converted €14.17

Total price €834.62

Would you like more information about local costs or would like more information about our service. Please get in touch via the contact page or check our website at your destination.

CAUTION! Prices, percentages and rules are indicative by 3rd party spending information. The customs in Suriname is in the above always final decision and we as a company in the Netherlands have no influence.