Xhorse Moves New WM-100 Kickstarter Backers to DAP Shipping From September 30, Leaving Import Duties to the Organization

Xhorse cites Item 1.B.2 of INFCIRC/254/Rev.13/Part 2. The official document includes certain milling machine tools with five or more axes that can be coordinated simultaneously for contouring control, subject to its technical parameters and definitions. That makes the citation plausible context for a review; it is not an independent product classification, license, approval, or rejection for the WM-100. NSG guidelines are not legally binding; participating governments apply them through national law, and decisions on export applications are taken at the national level. On its campaign page, Xhorse says the WM-100 is a dual-use item under China’s export-control law that needs an export license from China’s Ministry of Commerce, and gives that as its reason for DAP: the backer declares the import and keeps the import documents. Xhorse says earlier XM-100 applications from business users in Australia, Malaysia, the UK, the US and Thailand, and from a Hong Kong university, passed review, and that the authorities decide each application.

The reward price is no longer the cost of the machine: By Xhorse’s own account, the HK$ reward buys the machine, and freight, duties, taxes, customs clearance and brokerage fall to the backing organization. Xhorse’s plan covers the first 1,000 machines in monthly batches, about 100 in January 2027, 200 in February, 300 in March and 400 in April, in pledge-date order. When checked on October 19, about 395 machine rewards were already pledged, so a new pledge lands behind the first two monthly batches before any licensing delay (site arithmetic). Xhorse says VIP deposit holders get the $50 deposit and $200 discount back within 14 days after the campaign ends, which is about November 8 by our count, except that Pledge Over Time backers get the $200 only after their final installment.