diff --git a/builtin/providers/aws/import_aws_cloudtrail_test.go b/builtin/providers/aws/import_aws_cloudtrail_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b5b3aba3b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/builtin/providers/aws/import_aws_cloudtrail_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+package aws
+
+import (
+	"testing"
+
+	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/helper/acctest"
+	"github.com/hashicorp/terraform/helper/resource"
+)
+
+func TestAccAWSCloudTrail_importBasic(t *testing.T) {
+	resourceName := "aws_cloudtrail.foobar"
+	cloudTrailRandInt := acctest.RandInt()
+
+	resource.Test(t, resource.TestCase{
+		PreCheck:     func() { testAccPreCheck(t) },
+		Providers:    testAccProviders,
+		CheckDestroy: testAccCheckAWSCloudTrailDestroy,
+		Steps: []resource.TestStep{
+			resource.TestStep{
+				Config: testAccAWSCloudTrailConfig(cloudTrailRandInt),
+			},
+
+			resource.TestStep{
+				ResourceName:            resourceName,
+				ImportState:             true,
+				ImportStateVerify:       true,
+				ImportStateVerifyIgnore: []string{"enable_log_file_validation", "is_multi_region_trail", "include_global_service_events", "enable_logging"},
+			},
+		},
+	})
+}
diff --git a/builtin/providers/aws/resource_aws_cloudtrail.go b/builtin/providers/aws/resource_aws_cloudtrail.go
index a81c9fa99..c216db804 100644
--- a/builtin/providers/aws/resource_aws_cloudtrail.go
+++ b/builtin/providers/aws/resource_aws_cloudtrail.go
@@ -15,6 +15,9 @@ func resourceAwsCloudTrail() *schema.Resource {
 		Read:   resourceAwsCloudTrailRead,
 		Update: resourceAwsCloudTrailUpdate,
 		Delete: resourceAwsCloudTrailDelete,
+		Importer: &schema.ResourceImporter{
+			State: schema.ImportStatePassthrough,
+		},
 
 		Schema: map[string]*schema.Schema{
 			"name": &schema.Schema{
@@ -136,10 +139,9 @@ func resourceAwsCloudTrailCreate(d *schema.ResourceData, meta interface{}) error
 func resourceAwsCloudTrailRead(d *schema.ResourceData, meta interface{}) error {
 	conn := meta.(*AWSClient).cloudtrailconn
 
-	name := d.Get("name").(string)
 	input := cloudtrail.DescribeTrailsInput{
 		TrailNameList: []*string{
-			aws.String(name),
+			aws.String(d.Id()),
 		},
 	}
 	resp, err := conn.DescribeTrails(&input)
@@ -157,7 +159,7 @@ func resourceAwsCloudTrailRead(d *schema.ResourceData, meta interface{}) error {
 	}
 
 	if trail == nil {
-		log.Printf("[WARN] CloudTrail (%s) not found", name)
+		log.Printf("[WARN] CloudTrail (%s) not found", d.Id())
 		d.SetId("")
 		return nil
 	}
@@ -215,7 +217,7 @@ func resourceAwsCloudTrailUpdate(d *schema.ResourceData, meta interface{}) error
 	conn := meta.(*AWSClient).cloudtrailconn
 
 	input := cloudtrail.UpdateTrailInput{
-		Name: aws.String(d.Get("name").(string)),
+		Name: aws.String(d.Id()),
 	}
 
 	if d.HasChange("s3_bucket_name") {
@@ -274,11 +276,10 @@ func resourceAwsCloudTrailUpdate(d *schema.ResourceData, meta interface{}) error
 
 func resourceAwsCloudTrailDelete(d *schema.ResourceData, meta interface{}) error {
 	conn := meta.(*AWSClient).cloudtrailconn
-	name := d.Get("name").(string)
 
-	log.Printf("[DEBUG] Deleting CloudTrail: %q", name)
+	log.Printf("[DEBUG] Deleting CloudTrail: %q", d.Id())
 	_, err := conn.DeleteTrail(&cloudtrail.DeleteTrailInput{
-		Name: aws.String(name),
+		Name: aws.String(d.Id()),
 	})
 
 	return err