Ukraine / Canada Free Trade Deal
- Thread starter VanIsleCam
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Well said. All the new free trade agreement means is that goods originating from Ukraine will be duty free upon importation. GST will still be collected, just as it is for US goods. And vice versa.
There are only few PTRDs and PTRSs accounted in Ukrainian army. And probably another few in depots. All the stuff you see on pictures came to Ukraine from Russia as "russian humanitarian aid". There are some of this stuff captured by Ukrainian Army and volunteer battalions, but that's it. I don't see how this trade agreement could change anything. Most of soviet surplus (SKSs and SVTs and TTs and 7.62 ammo) were coming from Ukraine anyway. Nothing will change in the milsurplus with this new agreement IMO. Duties do not play big role on the final price of $15-20 surplus SKS from Ukraine being sold in Canada for $199. It's all up to the importers where and what they decide to bring. I would not bring any SKS to Canada. Why? To drop the market even more? Tavors aka Fort-22x, hmm, do you think Tavor licensed Ukrainian manufacturer for international sales or domestic production only?
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Boys from my class got a hold of about 30 of those things along with other weaponry in April of 2014. Before all the fighting started. Trucks filled with all sorts of weapons kept getting stopped on the highway while trying to drive past Artemovsk. National guard basically just told people to take the crap as long as there was no violence. I saw pictures of another 50-80 of those things after Artemovsk arsenal was opened up few months later. Not just PTR rifles, bunch of WW2 surplus was there.My opinion on this whole free trade thing. Canada needs to stop supporting nationalists who showed up in my home region and caused nothing but pain and suffering to my Ukrainian family. My older relatives who lived through occupation say that German troops were controlled better than those so called "volunteer" battalions.
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Tell your "boys" next time to remove paperwork from guns transit crates. It might come as surprise to you however some ppl can read and identify where stuff came from based on paperwork and crates markings.
As for the free trade agreement, that is what we have now in Custom Tariff Schedule:
9301.90.10 - 0% duty regardless of country of origin. 9301.90.10 covers bolt action and semi-auto rifles. 9302.00.00 covers revolvers and pistols and it's 3.5% for MFN (Most-Favour-Nation Tariff), but 0% for GPT (General Preferential Tariff) and Ukraine is covered by GPT already. So I don't see how this agreement would change anything in military surplus firearm. It's just taxes apparently, no duties.
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