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There should be no issue with the dust cover replacement.
Other parts, it gets iffy. Kalashnikov Concern (formerly Izhmash) has repeatedly claimed that the majority of foreign manufacturers are producing AK type rifles without proper licensing, and quality control varies greatly.
Besides our friends in Russia, AK rifles have been made in Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Cambodia, the PRC, Columbia, Croatia, Cuba, East Germany, Egypt, Ethiopia, Finland, Hungary, India, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Nigeria, North Korea, Pakistan, Poland, South Africa, Sudan, Ukraine, United States, Vietnam, Venezuela, Yugoslavia, Serbia, and some guy with an anvil in a cave somewhere.
Mark H.