This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment Hi Philip, You wrote: <<Most countries allow importation of ivory products made = before the CITES=20 Convention was signed (1974, I think). The U.S. is the exception to = this. It=20 is legal, however, to buy and sell ivory within the borders of the U.S. = so=20 long as it is not new.>> Dumb question: Is it merely the *import*, and not the *export*, that is = problematic? In other words, is it possible, for argument's sake, to = take a pre-1974 (but not century-old) ivory key-topped piano and ship it = from the US to another country, so long as the authorities in that = country are willing? That is, would the US officials care one way or = the other? I have an acquaintance who may be relocating to another = country with a not-quite-century-old square grand. I can't imagine a = beautiful square with plastic keytops! Ick! Peace, Sarah ... Perhaps if ivory came from donkeys instead of elephants... THEN the = US government could care less. <grin> ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/1a/ae/eb/a7/attachment.htm ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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