Just to clarify a few things:
As stated on our website/CGN, we do not do a December export due to government short staffing during the holidays. Orders were collected from Nov 16th to Jan 15th for the "January Export" then a new export cycle started. The November export left the US in December.
Unfortunately, the US government shutdown for over a month. 35 days to be exact. This affected when we could file permits for export. The government only reopened this past Monday. Permits are in the system and assigned to the permitting officers.
I can assure you we are doing what we can to get orders out of the US as soon as possible.
Please bare with us.
As far as GST/Shipping goes:
If you do not receive an email to pay shipping/GST, there are usually a few reasons:
1) Your order has not been processed/boxed/weighed as of yet.
2) Your order requires a manual shipping quote due to either total weight, multiple boxes and/or the contents of your order. Ammo for example requires us to manually process the shipping.
If you have any other questions or want further clarification, please feel free to call our office. I will be more than happy to assist you.
Again, we apologize for the delays and we thank you for being IRG customers.