Although it is legal to sell many species of caviar, international agreements and American law provide a complex system of permits for import and distribution to control the market.
Foreign magazines like Mr. Bei's, which combines work by Western and Chinese authors, must have permits for import, although many circulate in intellectual circles and essays published overseas are often available on the Chinese Internet.
Although it is legal to sell caviar, international agreements and American law provide a complex system of permits for import and distribution to try to control the market to protect sturgeon.
None of the other species were imported because their conditions rapidly deteriorate in captivity, or permits for live import were unavailable (i.e., Andamia spp. from Taiwan).
"If it's legally traded, the pet shop should have permits for the import of the species".
"We need to provide permits for LNG import terminals," he says.
The company, Veolia Environmental Services, dropped its request to the Environmental Protection Agency for a permit to import polychlorinated byphenyls from Mexico and burn them in a plant, said Mitch Osborne, general manager of the plant.
The DEA told the Kentucky Department of Agriculture in a Tuesday night letter, obtained by HuffPost through an open records request, that the state has to apply for a permit to import Schedule I drugs before it can gain access to the seeds.
We have also received applications from U.S. hunters that hunted or will be hunting in four other African nations – Mozambique, Namibia, Zambia and Zimbabwe – for permits to import sport-hunted lion trophies.
Three American zoos -- the Dallas Zoo, Sedgwick County Zoo in Wichita, Kansas, and Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska -- have applied to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service FWSS) for permits to import 18 wild-captured African elephants from Swaziland.
While the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) makes it more difficult to capture marine mammals from the wild, aquariums can and sometimes do apply for permits to import animals from other countries where wild capture is still common.
