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29 March 2015, 15:41

Norsk

Export cost and reccomendation of export firm

My bradshaw rifle seems to be on schedule and I am calculating what extra options I can afford. Wife is getting new (expensive) windows and I am getting my toy

Anyone have experiences exporting from the US to europe? I live in Norway and have a valid import licence for the rifle ready here. How much will it cost?, also including transport and insurance. I have to pay 25% toll here ...grrr...

29 March 2015, 16:03

subsailor74

quote:
Originally posted by Norsk:
My bradshaw rifle seems to be on schedule and I am calculating what extra options I can afford. Wife is getting new (expensive) windows and I am getting my toy

Anyone have experiences exporting from the US to europe? I live in Norway and have a valid import licence for the rifle ready here. How much will it cost?, also including transport and insurance. I have to pay 25% toll here ...grrr...

My advice to you is to enlist the services of a professional exporter here in the States. Rifles fall under the Department of State and hence are subject to ITAR rules. This is not something you want to mess up. I recommend you contact someone like Ken Buch at Kebco. Ken imports/exports all the Verney-Carron rifles from/ to France and can put you in touch with the firm he uses.

29 March 2015, 16:04

jaz

I have used Griffin and Howe. The cost was rather high, $500 +/_ , but the buyer paid the cost and they are well versed in this.

29 March 2015, 18:24

Norsk

thanks guys, got some info from Ken/kebco.

01 April 2015, 02:23

tankhunter

If you do a search Weexportguns,Rob Bagnato has exported actions and rifles for me, was all good ,but our crap Aust dollar and then the GST here made it alot more

02 April 2015, 11:00

BrettAKSCI

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Originally posted by jaz:
I have used Griffin and Howe.

+1

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02 April 2015, 13:36

Norsk

Got a quote from Rob export totaling 1700 usd. They take 1200 export handling fee. Isn't that a lot?

02 April 2015, 17:33

tankhunter

Seems like alot to me

05 April 2015, 01:29

Cardinal

Sounds like extremely high.

Johnson Firearms charges 400. http://www.johnsonfirearms.com/export_import/
(note, I have NO experience with that company, just one I have bookmarked)

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PRICING:

Our fee for processing your export license is only $399 for up to 2 Firearms. The US Dept of State charges us for most of that fee and we then tack on a little for the 1hr – 2hrs of work involved in the submittal process. When you order the Firearms through us there is no limit to Firearms that we will add to the application. Some companies add a percentage of the total value of the Firearms to increase the fee, since it is all on the same application, we don’t charge extra for nothing!

Others frequently charge $250 for the US State dept fee, plus 10-20% of the value

06 April 2015, 23:06

470Evans

Try Champlins, they export all over the world.

06 April 2015, 23:50

dpcd

And Dale Nygaard; he does the same, plus he is a nice guy to boot.

08 April 2015, 06:36

Nakihunter

Try and talk to Wayne at AHR. I am not sure if he can help but he is a fantastic man to deal with & very helpful. He posts here as Bitteroot