Ronin Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 Taken from an accuracy based forum, this may affect the availability of actions , barrels et al in the future? Wonder if this will affect the importers here - I sincerly hope not. Anyway, heres the piece: "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" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
6mmBR Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 Not good news, I wonder will things get worse again under Obama? He and his cabinet are not good on the 2nd amendment. Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveW Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 [quote name='Ronin' date='Jan 30 2009, 02:41 PM' post='48160' 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. Whatever happened to free trade, thats extortionate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baldie Posted January 30, 2009 Report Share Posted January 30, 2009 We got that mail a couple of days ago....luckily our license runs till 2010. looking at the cc list it was sent to, i was surprised how few english smiths were on it. The ones that are, are using lilja for BAT actions, mainly. more american news , was the sad passing of Barney lawton two days ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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