RE: [MV] Importing US-made armor?

From: Glen Bedel (GBedel@designforum.com)
Date: Wed Jul 30 2003 - 04:59:58 PDT


It's so the people can't see how much money was given to foreign
governments...... ;P

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Lathrop [mailto:lathrrs@snip.net]
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 2:40 AM
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List
Subject: Re: [MV] Importing US-made armor?

Alan and list,

Per US Code of Federal Regulations Tile 27 part 447

§ 447.57 U.S. military defense articles.

(a)(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this part or of parts 478 or
479 of this chapter, no military defense article of United States
manufacture may be imported into the United States if such article was
furnished to a foreign government under a foreign assistance or foreign
military sales program of the United States.

(2) The restrictions in paragraph (a)(1) of this section cover defense
articles which are advanced in value or improved in condition in a foreign
country, but do not include those which have been substantially transformed
as to become, in effect, articles of foreign manufacture.

(b) Paragraph (a) of this section will not apply if:

(1) The applicant submits with the ATF Form 6 -- Part I application written
authorization from the Department of State to import the defense article;
and

(2) In the case of firearms, such firearms are curios or relics under 18
U.S.C. 925(e) and the person seeking to import such firearms provides a
certification of a foreign government that the firearms were furnished to
such government under a foreign assistance or foreign military sales program
of the United States and that the firearms are owned by such foreign
government. (See § 478.118 of this chapter providing for the importation of
certain curio or relic handguns, rifles and shotguns.)

(c) For the purpose of this section, the term "military defense article"
includes all defense articles furnished to foreign governments under a
foreign assistance or foreign military sales program of the United States as
set forth in paragraph (a) of this section. (Approved by the Office of
Management and Budget under OMB Control No. 1512-0017)

[T.D. ATF-287, 54 FR 13681, Apr. 5, 1989, as amended by T.D. ATF-393, 62 FR
61235, Nov. 17, 1997; T.D. ATF-426, 65 FR 38198, June 20, 2000]

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