sillymike wrote:
If it lands in the US and they think there are duties applicable, they will need to be paid before they release the package.
Same thing when you try to bring it in to Canada. Canada custom couldn't careless that you already paid duty in the US for it.
Did you include a:
- International Import Certificate
- Letter/email form the RCMP saying this air rifle is legal in Canada
It is not officially required, but it always facilitate any "firearms related" items coming in the country... and even, things can take a funny twist. But that's another story.
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It doesn't make sense that Canada Post would return the item. If Canada Custom didn't like it, they would have sent you a letter to that effect. Informing you that you had 30 days to appeals. In most cases you can forfeit the package, which will be destroyed. Have it shipped out of the country (don't know the $ involved).
I think you're correct about how it works with Canada Post and Canada Customs. There is something strange here and to me it looks like it never even arrived in Canada and that somewhere along the line it got returned to Krale.
An International Import Certificate is not needed for this, according to the gov't people I spoke with in the last year concerning what I'd need to bring in the air guns that I wanted. Neither is a letter/email from the RCMP (and how would you possibly go about getting that anyway?). But the HW97 *IS* listed in the RCMP FRT database as a permitted rifle, requiring only a PAL (not even an RPAL) to have. And a copy of the PAL was included inside and outside the package according to Krale. But also for us mere mortals, it's just about impossible to get the correct FRT information or classification, but all law enforcement and Customs people have easy access to it.
Bottom line is that I really believe something happened outside of Canada which caused the rifle to be returned to Krale.
(Also, as I said, this was a friend of mine who ordered the rifle based on my recommendation and experience, but I've imported three airguns successfully from Krale and one from Mundilar in Portugual. But that doesn't mean things haven't changed somehow and that I wouldn't be successful in the future.)