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(Para 4 continued]
The Hong Kong traders have estimated that it will take them two
years to sell existing stocks. Ther carvers would need five years. It is important that we should be seen to be protecting the interests of Hong Kong, which has rigourously followed the strict
procedures laid down by CITES.
The main problem of Hong Kong stocks will have to be addressed at
the CITES meeting in October. But we believe there is a case now for excluding from the EC ban those stocks of ivory which Hong Kong imported from the EC for working and, until member countries of the EC introduced individual bans on imports, they
Galended to return to
the EC.
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