Buying machinery from the UK or Europe?
Euro Plant Finder helps overseas buyers find, assess and purchase used construction and agricultural machinery across the UK and Europe. Wherever the buyer is located, the principle is the same: we represent the buyer, not the seller.
Where we work
Euro Plant Finder has sourced machinery from the UK and Europe for Nordic buyers since 2003, and now offers the same buyer-side service into ten overseas markets — plus, of course, right here at home in the UK. The process is the same everywhere — search, assess, negotiate and coordinate delivery — with each country's import, biosecurity or customs requirements handled from this end.
Whether buying from Europe makes sense depends on the machine. Europe may make sense because of specification, availability, condition, age/hours, specialist equipment, timing, auction opportunity or overall landed value. We assess the actual requirement rather than assuming international sourcing is automatically the right answer.
Europe
Great Britain
Great Britain
This is where we're based. Most machines need no import, no customs, no biosecurity step at all — you're buying from the same market we work in every day. Where the right machine sits in Europe instead, we handle the same import paperwork and customs clearance we manage for every other market.
Republic of Ireland
Republic of Ireland
Machinery from elsewhere in the EU moves freely into Ireland; machinery from Great Britain clears through Irish Revenue with an EORI number, duty (usually nil) and VAT under Postponed Accounting confirmed upfront.
Northern IrelandNorthern Ireland
Machinery from the EU moves into Northern Ireland with no customs step; machinery from Great Britain moves under the Windsor Framework's internal market arrangements, using the free Trader Support Service (the buyer or dealer needs UK Internal Market Scheme authorisation) — set up from this end either way.
Finland
Finland
Finland is a joint business with Juha Sade, who looks after Finnish customers from Finland, in Finnish. Machinery from elsewhere in the EU moves freely; machinery from the UK clears through Tulli with an EORI number, import VAT (reported on the buyer's VAT return) and, for agricultural machinery, a plant-health certificate.
Sweden
Sweden
Machinery from elsewhere in the EU moves freely into Sweden; machinery from the UK goes through full customs clearance with Tullverket, an EORI number, import VAT and conformity checks — all handled from this end.
Asia
Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia
SASO/SABER conformity certification through the Heavy Equipment Regulatory Center is required on import, and age limits apply — we confirm compliance and manage export documentation on every machine we source from the UK and Europe.
United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates
No Australia-style biosecurity regime, though Gulf plant-quarantine law bans importing soil, so every machine ships cleaned and photographed. We prepare the export documentation and coordinate clearance with your UAE broker. Since February 2026 the Strait of Hormuz has been largely closed: machines currently arrive via Fujairah or Khorfakkan and bonded road — allow 10–12 weeks door to door.
Australasia
Australia
Australia
We handle DAFF's biosecurity rules — cleaning, certification and compliance — on every machine we source from the UK and Europe, from cropping gear to mine-spec plant. Duty depends on the machine — much of what we source enters Australia at nil duty whatever country it was built in, and where duty does apply the UK trade agreement only helps if that machine was genuinely built in Britain.
New Zealand
New Zealand
We handle MPI's biosecurity rules — cleaning, documentation and certification — on every machine we source from the UK and Europe, from hill-country tractors to forestry kit built for steep terrain, with Customs duty and GST confirmed upfront through Trade Single Window.
North America
Canada
Canada
We handle CFIA cleanliness checks and coordinate CBSA clearance on every machine we source from the UK and Europe — from prairie tractors to resource-sector plant. Most farm and earthmoving machinery already enters Canada at zero duty, whatever country it was built in.
United States
United States
We check EPA engine eligibility on every machine before we source it — without a US EPA label a used machine cannot enter for use — then prepare the USDA/APHIS clean-and-dry paperwork and coordinate clearance with your US broker, whether it's for spring planting or the autumn harvest run.
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