Mexico and India make .22, isn’t foreign ammo allowed in?
Aquila (from Mexico) has increased their production 70% in the last couple of years. All they can send goes to the U.S. market. It is part of the 25% increase I mentioned.
I have spent some time on an Indian gun online group. They routinely complain about the poor quality of Indian .22 ammunition, made only in Indian government factories. Expensive and poor quality is the consensus. Probably why we are not seeing it on the U.S. market.
There may be reasons we are not seeing Chinese .22 on the U.S. market.
I have seen lots of Russian, British, Italian, and Czech .22 on the U.S. market. Most foreign producers are pretty small potatoes compared to the U.S.
As far as I can tell, all the foreign manufacturers of .22 have been running 24/7 (as well as U.S. manufacturers) in an attempt to meet demand for the last three years. It has all been gobbled up by an insatiable U.S. market.
Now, we are finally seeing a possible drop in that demand, with a Trump Presidency.