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How to import gun parts from the US into the UK
robin128
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IMHO and AIUI, to import into UK from a US supplier involves the following procedure for each and every order:-
1. Written order on your letterhead, paragraphing (in letter form) the items required. The supplier's order form or web confirmation will NOT be accepted as a written order. Your signature is also required.
2. Complete form DSP-83. The form needs the supplier's name in line 2, your business/name in line 3, our country in line 4, Line 5 is the description, quantity and value of gun parts. Line 6 is left blank, line 7 signed by you, line 8 left blank and the supplier will sign line 9 when they make the actual application for an export licence. The letter must record your street address. The US state department will not accept any such letter that reflects just a post office box. Both addresses may be listed.
3. If the supplier requires a letter relating to an import licence, Email enquiries.ilb@dti.gsi.gov.uk requesting a letter with certified copies (signed by the signatory to the original letter within an ink stamp) stating that an import licence is not required. These will be sent to you in just over a week. The Department of Trade and Industry may telephone you to confirm details. DTI contact details Queensway House, West Precinct, Town Centre, Billingham, tel enqs 0207 215 5000.
The DTI state that component parts for weapons require an import licence. In my case they certified that, as the magazine conversion / extra magazines are neither necessary to the action of the weapon nor are they designed to diminish the noise or flash caused by firing the weapon, a specific import licence is not required.
In the absence of any legal definition, the Home Office takes the view that component parts are those parts which are necessary to the action of the weapon such as trigger mechanisms, barrels, but not screws, springs, nuts and bolts etc which may be used for other purposes. Certified copies will be useful if you wish to source from many US suppliers.
4. Payment:- certified cheque/credit card US$s depending on supplier.
5. Documents 1-4 above when fully completed/obtained need to be posted to the US Supplier.
With the pound so strong against the US$ all you have to worry about is the import duty - expect a call for your credit card no from Customs and Excise.
Rob[;)]
1. Written order on your letterhead, paragraphing (in letter form) the items required. The supplier's order form or web confirmation will NOT be accepted as a written order. Your signature is also required.
2. Complete form DSP-83. The form needs the supplier's name in line 2, your business/name in line 3, our country in line 4, Line 5 is the description, quantity and value of gun parts. Line 6 is left blank, line 7 signed by you, line 8 left blank and the supplier will sign line 9 when they make the actual application for an export licence. The letter must record your street address. The US state department will not accept any such letter that reflects just a post office box. Both addresses may be listed.
3. If the supplier requires a letter relating to an import licence, Email enquiries.ilb@dti.gsi.gov.uk requesting a letter with certified copies (signed by the signatory to the original letter within an ink stamp) stating that an import licence is not required. These will be sent to you in just over a week. The Department of Trade and Industry may telephone you to confirm details. DTI contact details Queensway House, West Precinct, Town Centre, Billingham, tel enqs 0207 215 5000.
The DTI state that component parts for weapons require an import licence. In my case they certified that, as the magazine conversion / extra magazines are neither necessary to the action of the weapon nor are they designed to diminish the noise or flash caused by firing the weapon, a specific import licence is not required.
In the absence of any legal definition, the Home Office takes the view that component parts are those parts which are necessary to the action of the weapon such as trigger mechanisms, barrels, but not screws, springs, nuts and bolts etc which may be used for other purposes. Certified copies will be useful if you wish to source from many US suppliers.
4. Payment:- certified cheque/credit card US$s depending on supplier.
5. Documents 1-4 above when fully completed/obtained need to be posted to the US Supplier.
With the pound so strong against the US$ all you have to worry about is the import duty - expect a call for your credit card no from Customs and Excise.
Rob[;)]