Importing magazine pouches

Xeon06

Xeon06

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Hey folks,

Has anyone ever had trouble importing magazine pouches into Canada?

I ordered a set of Blade Tech pouches a month ago, and never got them. The tracking stopped at the Canadian border. The Blade Tech customer support was helpful and sent me another one, to a US address this time. I recently went back and looked at the tracking for the original one and it had been updated with the following:

Does not meet customs requirements - Return to Sender
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I am supposed to go pick up the new pouch tomorrow in the US, and bringing it back in Canada by car. The message is pretty cryptic, doesn't say exactly what's gone wrong with the customs check, but I have a small fear that it may be that it's an unallowed item for importation. I tried to look it up but to no avail. To me it's just a piece of plastic, but you never know.

Does anyone have more experience / details on that?

Cheers
 
More likely U.S. Customs thinking it's going to a terr than our lot. Although there may be an issue with them not having an exporter's licence. You need to contact them.
 
So I just called US Customs and Border Patrol, to try to get a definitive answer. 4 people told me "I don't know, I think it's fine, let me transfer you", and the last person I got, seemingly very annoyed with me, told me sternly that "anything related to firearms needed an export permit from the State Department". Guy at the State Department was very cool, thought for sure that I didn't need it, and even if I did, he can't issue those non American citizens. In the end though, it's the border patrol guy that gets to decide, and I've heard of people being barred from going to the US and what not, which I don't want to risk. I found a dealer in Canada (which I hadn't managed to do initially) and will be getting a refund on the one in the US.
 
Nothing like dealing with over-paid civil servants who get to make law by regulation. Worse when they're foreigners and don't know what they're talking about. It does require American citizenship to get the State Dept. export permit, but not all firearm related stuff requires an export permit. The manufacturer must have the Commerce Dept. exporter's licence. Oh and '4' is not a word.
ITAR covers a great deal more than firearm parts and it does not cover parts for all firearms. There is a copy of it on-line. Just do a net search for it. Pretty amusing read as it says you cannot export an aircraft carrier or battleship without the permit.
 
When you say stopped at border, do you mean on the US side or the Canadian side?

US side return likely ITAR misreading by agent, Canadian side could be value not declared or illegible, something simple like that.
 
I ordered a bunch of BladeTech pouches a couple months ago. No problems getting them through the border. I ordered them through Brownells, which had them crazy cheap on sale....
 
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