well my buddy, and his brother both imported a motorcycle each , at the same time from america. they were brand new and valued at about the same price 18-20K US dollars...their firsdt quote was that the taxes for each alone would be about $10K US dollars...they wheeled and ealed with their connection pipeline to get it down to about $2K each bike and had them shipped...when they got on shore there...there got stuck in duty and the fees went up to $8K before they got their bikes out.....the guy that gave them the sweet deal wouldnt even talk to them......dont know they were scamed, or their connection had heat on him...and bailed on his promise.....
I have another friend who put a 2 year old toyota car in a crate and sent it and only paid 27K pesos.....I think it might have been a little of...they dont open every crate...but he had connections through the previous goverment, that might still be intact....who knows.....I have another friend that imported his used honda motorcycle. It was worth about 3K in the us and he ended up paying about 2.8K in US dollars to finally get it out of customs in the DR.........when he was also told way less....
id figure you will pay 50% of the vehicles value most likely..
I am not in your shoes, but have a hard time trying to decide if I want a rehashed hurricane flooded used car, or risk having my own imported car stripped and looted and still not knowing what it will cost till i want to go get it....
ps i heard the taxes are supposed to drop over the next 5 years for american made stuff...
bob