Mike Bryant
Active member
I thought I would pass on an e-mail that I received today from Virginia Thomson at Lilja Rifle Barrels. Virginia had been exporting the few rifles that I had exported in the past several years. This pretty well will end being able to export rifles out of the US as the cost of the export registration has become exorbitant.
Effective immediately. January 29,2009
We just got hit with the renewal of our export registration for this year. Our cost went to $12,000.00.
Yes, that is $12,000.
They are basing the rate on the number of license we obtained last year. We are being charged $2750 plus $250 per license processed. Doesn't matter if a license is for one item or fifty. We are going to have to increase our base license fee to $350 per license to absorb the cost. This is the fee for a license with barrels only on it.
Dan has decided because of the extra cost we will need to discontinue the exporting of completed rifles and actions. The number of licenses we process this year will increase our registration cost for next year. Also because the fee is based on past licenses and the fee can be increased in the future we have got to try to keep the numbers down.
Sorry for the bad news. It is going to hurt all of us.
Regards,
Virginia Thomson
Office Manager
Lilja Precision Rifle Barrels Inc
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Effective immediately. January 29,2009
We just got hit with the renewal of our export registration for this year. Our cost went to $12,000.00.
Yes, that is $12,000.
They are basing the rate on the number of license we obtained last year. We are being charged $2750 plus $250 per license processed. Doesn't matter if a license is for one item or fifty. We are going to have to increase our base license fee to $350 per license to absorb the cost. This is the fee for a license with barrels only on it.
Dan has decided because of the extra cost we will need to discontinue the exporting of completed rifles and actions. The number of licenses we process this year will increase our registration cost for next year. Also because the fee is based on past licenses and the fee can be increased in the future we have got to try to keep the numbers down.
Sorry for the bad news. It is going to hurt all of us.
Regards,
Virginia Thomson
Office Manager
Lilja Precision Rifle Barrels Inc
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