Boarder Crossing

[Delphinus]

Originally Posted by Nemain

Wow I finally figured something out! Looks like the only one that needs a permit is the exporting country. Therefor dun dun dee dun - I can get my corals NP. It will still cost an arm and a leg with duty etc. But he exports to Canada already =-).

I think the only reason he likes for it to be picked up at the boarder is for health issues perhaps?

Anyways, I will let you know how everything goes =)

Thanks,

beth

I'm not sure I'm on the same page as you here. A couple cautionary notes ....

1. I could be wrong, but I think CITES needs to be issued from the country of origin for the species or at least somewhere where the species is native. Here you need to be careful. If you can't find "Acropora somethingorother" (for hypothetical example) in U.S. territorial waters, a CITES permit can't be issued in the U.S. for that. So frags from corals that were originally imported into the U.S. can't really be re-exported quite so easily. In the case of zoanthids, however, I beleive that a lot of them are found off Florida so in this case you may be OK with a U.S.-issued CITES permit.

2. Forgive my cynicism but I highly doubt it's for health reasons that he just ships to a border crossing and then you cross the border yourself, pick them up, and cross the border back carrying the livestock with you. In this scenario, he is nicely exonerated from any risk (all he did was ship from a U.S. destination to another U.S. destination) and thus for the actual border crossing you have taken on the full risk exposure.

Obviously, it is possible to import livestock (and as a few people have mentioned). I'm just trying to point out there are a LOT of points to consider. Be careful, whatever you do.