U.S. Implementation of CITES: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, Second Session ... to Ensure that the Endangered and Threatened Species of Flora and Fauna Will Live and Flourish, July 14, 1988U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989 - 118 pages |
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Page 82 - SMUGGLING AND CLANDESTINE IMPORTATIONS. (a) FRAUD ON REVENUE. — If any person knowingly and willfully, with intent to defraud the revenue of the United States, smuggles, or clandestinely introduces into the United States any merchandise which should have been invoiced, or makes out or passes, or attempts to pass, through the customhouse any false, forged, or fraudulent invoice, or other document or paper...
Page 52 - Service, the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the US Department of Agriculture...
Page 112 - When the Secretary of Commerce or the Secretary of the Interior finds that nationals of a foreign country, directly or indirectly, are engaging in trade or taking which diminishes the effectiveness of any international program for endangered or threatened species, the Secretary making such finding shall certify such fact to the President.
Page 80 - import" means to land on, bring into, or introduce into, or attempt to land on, bring into, or introduce into, any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, whether or not such landing, bringing, or introduction constitutes an importation within the meaning of the customs laws of the United States. (8) The term "person...
Page 79 - The purposes of this chapter are to provide a means whereby the ecosystems upon which endangered species and threatened species depend may be conserved, to provide a program for the conservation of such endangered species and threatened species...
Page 72 - Dean of the Graduate School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He is...
Page 79 - Act of 1973 represented the most comprehensive legislation for the preservation of endangered species ever enacted by any nation.
Page 79 - RECOGNIZING, in addition, that international cooperation is essential for the protection of certain species of wild fauna and flora against over-exploitation through international trade...
Page 115 - President determines appropriate and to the extent that such prohibition is sanctioned by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade.
Page 104 - Conference urges that contracting countries endeavor to restrict gradually the collection of wild animals for the pet trade and to encourage the breeding of animals for this purpose with the objective of eventually limiting the keeping of pets to thos,e species which can be bred in captivity.