Proposed ITAR Fee Increase (for firearm & ammunition manufacturers and exporters)

[Bubbles]

Manufacturers:

The State Department has proposed raising the annual ITAR registration fee to $2,250.

If you have *any* export activity, the minimum fee will increase to $2,750.

If you apply to export items more than 10 times, the fee will be $2,750, plus $250 per export application over 10.

In the final coup d' grace, State is proposing that the annual registration fee equal 3% of the total annual value of a company's export. If Dillon Aero exported 10 M134's and the export totalled $1.3M, the annual registration fee for the following year would equal or exceed $30,000.

The notice was published in the Federal Register (Volume 73, Number 145, Page 43653) and can be found online.

Not happy with the proposed fee increase? The comment period for the proposed fee increase closes on August 28, 2008. Send your emails to:

[email protected]

Please include “ITAR Regulatory Change, 22 CFR Parts 122 and 129” within the Subject line.

If you wish to respond via letter, the mailing address for comments is:
Department of State, Directorate of Defense Trade Controls
ATTN: Regulatory Change, ITAR sections 122 and 129
SA–1, 12th floor
Washington, DC 20522–0112

Please submit comments to the State Department on this issue.

ETA: General ITAR Info

 

[rbernie]

I wonder if FMS sales will be subject to this? Probably not.

 

[ieszu]

So if I export 10 firearms I would owe a $250 tax one each one past that? Or is it per shipment? Could I export 1,000 firearms as one export?

This would hurt the economy domestically, costing more for items that are already going to be more expensive because of the weakened dollar., thus limiting demand for our military hardware.

I wonder what spurred this proposed increase?

 

[myrockfight]

This would hurt the economy domestically, costing more for items that are already going to be more expensive because of the weakened dollar., thus limiting demand for our military hardware.

Actually, because the dollar is weakened, the items being purchased by another country that uses a different currency are cheaper. As long as the dollar stays comparitively weak to the buyer's currency, all of our exports will be cheaper. Thus we will sell more domestically manufactured products.

The dollar being a little weaker isn't all bad. As long as our government can convince other countries to not drop the dollar as the currency which they peg theirs to and what they use to conduct oil transactions, our economy will prosper because of the increase in exports.

 

[ieszu]

Actually, because the dollar is weakened, the items being purchased by another country that uses a different currency are cheaper. As long as the dollar stays comparitively weak to the buyer's currency, all of our exports will be cheaper. Thus we will sell more domestically manufactured products.

The dollar being a little weaker isn't all bad. As long as our government can convince other countries to not drop the dollar as the currency which they peg theirs to and what they use to conduct oil transactions, our economy will prosper because of the increase in exports.

True... but with less demand for the Dollar, we will have to purchase basic resources such as steel (we don't make much in this country anymore) at a higher cost, thus increasing the cost to other countries far beyond what it was a few years back.