In the last post we have seen the basic information on International Arms Business and the reasons for the Arms Industry to thrive.
Western Countries which manufacture and Export Arms a were listed.
List of Arms Manufacturers.
The list is not exhaustive;for a List follow the Link.
Link; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_modern_armament_manufacturers
The Communist Countries have their own Industries.
Now most of the countries have ceased to be Communists.
Leading the pack is China and Russia.
It is followed by Czechoslovakia(recall SEMTEX), Bulgaria , Yugoslavia.
Apart from this you have Iran ,Iraq, Australia etc.
Then you also have other Nations like Australia,India,Pakistan,Indonesia.
While in the days of Communism, the Arms were sold only for profits by the West, the Communists sold them for Influence over the Country to which they were selling.
If it is a Government to Government transaction there is no problem at all.
The Importing Country places on an order on the Exporting Country/a Manufacturer in that Country.
The order is scrutinized by the Defense and Foreign Department of the Exporting Country and if found in order , then the order is through.
But nothing is perfect in the world.
We have Separatists like Batista, LTTE (till recently) and a host of local out fits who wage wars against States.
The Exporters are lured by the money and they sell.
And though there are no communist Regimes now, save China, USSR, North Korea and a few others.
They sell still for ideology.
Then we do have individuals, Loosely linked terrorists and Terrorist out fits.
The want to buy.
The Arms manufacturing countries lured by the money and taking into account their Geo political calculations sell Arms to these people.
They can not sell these direct .
To fill in the void came Arms Dealers.
1.Licensed Arms dealers.
They have a License from the Government and once the order is cleared by the Government they complete the sale.
Companies also appoint Arms Dealers.
2.Arms Dealers.
They do not stock nor do they have a Licence.
They liaise with the importer, Exporter /Company and see the deal through and get a cut from both sides at times.
3.Black Market Dealers.
These people have no Licence, nor hold stocks.
The buyer wants to be anonymous and the Seller looks elsewhere.
But if the supplier is feisty these dealers oblige for a higher cut.
How do they do it?
End User certificate?
I will be dealing on this in a separate post.
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Different Cases of Operational Confluence
Between Producers and Traffickers
As mentioned above, it is worth pointing out some cases in which, it can
be presumed, that arms manufacturers and traffickers are operating jointly, or
the manufacturers are acting directly as traffickers, supplying different
equipment to countries in conflict or to illegal groups.
1. The NORINCO Case
On 18 March 1996, at a local harbour, customs service agents from the
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms office of the San Francisco District Attorney’s
Office, seized a delivery of about 2,000 AK-47 type weapons, sent from China,
presumably destined for mafia groups in Los Angeles.
Under those circumstances, eight United States and several Chinese
citizens were arrested. Two Chinese citizens were probably representatives
from two of China’s State arms manufacturing companies: “North Industries
Corp.” (NORINCO) and “Polytechnology”, which belong to the Popular Army.
Those companies which are the largest Chinese arms exporters, had been
under surveillance by American investigators, because in the past, they had
been involved in the illegal introduction of their products to the local market.
It should be remembered that China had been the most important foreign
supplier of rifles and handguns to the United States until May 1994, when the96 Curbing Illicit Trafficking in Small Arms and Sensitive Technologies
Clinton Administration issued a decree banning Chinese weapons imports.
Between 1991 and 1993, “NORINCO”, “Polytechnology” and “Jinganco”,
which belongs to the State Police, sold about two million handguns on the
United States market.
“Poly Group”, which is a direct branch of the Chinese Army’s
Department of General Affairs, recorded a spectacular trade boom during the
1980s, under the rule of He Ping (Deng Xiao Ping’s son-in-law) and Wang Jun
(son of the former Vice-President Wang Zhen).
2. Eastern European Producers
After the collapse of communism, the Eastern countries’ armaments industry has been trying to overcome the crisis caused by the loss of traditional
markets
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