Zastava Oruzje Exports Hunting and Sports Arms Worth USD 234 Million to USA

The factory Zastava Oruzje has secured the full engagement of the capacities, the security of the jobs and the salaries for 2,500 employees in the next six years by the agreement on the delivery of hunting and sports arms to the USA market, worth USD 234 million, stated the director of the factory, Milan Petkovic.

As Petkovic emphasized in his statement for Beta, the agreement is the biggest one in the history of the Kragujevac factory, and the export to the USA is a confirmation of the high quality of products.

– The first year of that agreement, which will be realized over another five, is complete. Each year, we should export products worth around USD 40 million to the American market. These are hunting and sports arms – he said.

He also pointed out that the factory had full capacities commissioned for the next three years.

The director of Zastava Arms USA, which is the exclusive representative of the Kragujevac factory in the USA, Ranko Ristic, said for Beta that the agreement on their cooperation was signed in 2018, and that, in 2021, “all the records” were broken with the signing of the biggest agreement in the history of the factory in Kragujevac.

– In America, we have become a company with the best quality of arms based on the AK platform, where Zastava Oruzje has a long tradition – Ristic said.

He emphasized that his company was the biggest exporter of those kinds of arms to the USA.

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