At the end of 2017, China banned the ivory trade altogether

On March 24, China's State Forestry Administration announced the "List of Designated Processing Units and Designated Sales Sites for Stopping Commercial Processing and Sales of Ivory and Products in Phases and Batches", and two enterprises were required to stop processing and selling ivory and its products in two batches within a specified period of time. By the end of this year, China will completely stop the processing and sale of ivory and its products. In order to strengthen the protection of the object and crack down on the illegal ivory, in January and February 201, the General Office of the People's Republic of China issued the "Notice of the General Office on the Orderly Cessation of Commercial Processing and Sales of Ivory and Ivory Products", requiring the commercial processing and sales of ivory and products to be completely stopped before January and December 31, 201.

According to the requirements of "stopping in phases and batches", Lu Qijia must stop processing and selling ivory and products before March 31, and apply to the administrative department for industry and commerce in time to change and cancel the registration procedures, and the remaining 105 enterprises must stop before February 31. At that time, China will completely stop the processing and sale of ivory and its products. In the listed list, there are four lacquer shops located in Beijing, two five in Guangdong, one lacquer shop in Shanghai, one lacquer shop in Jiangsu, and one Lujia in Fujian, mainly concentrated in first-tier cities and eastern coastal provinces.

The official requires that after the cessation of commercial processing and sales of ivory and its products, the cultural department should guide the transformation of ivory carving skills inheritors and related practitioners, encourage ivory carving masters to engage in relevant art restoration work in museums and other institutions, and guide ivory carving inheritors to use alternative materials to develop other ivory carving, bone carving and other skills. Market trading of ivory and its products in legal collections is prohibited, but displays, exhibitions and other activities may be carried out in non-sales venues.

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Legal Analysis: Buying and selling ivory is illegal in China. China is a signatory to the International Convention on Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, and ivory and its products are controlled commodities.

Anyone who illegally buys, sells, trafficks, or smuggles ivory or its products shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than five years or short-term detention and shall also be fined; where the circumstances are serious, a sentence of between 5 and 10 years imprisonment and a concurrent fine is to be given.

Legal basis: Article 341 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China: Anyone who illegally hunts or kills rare or endangered wildlife under key national protection, or illegally purchases, transports, or kills rare or endangered wildlife under key national protection and the products thereof, is sentenced to up to five years imprisonment or short-term detention and a concurrent fine; where the circumstances are serious, a sentence of between 5 and 10 years imprisonment and a concurrent fine is to be given. where the circumstances are especially serious, a sentence of 10 or more years imprisonment and a concurrent fine or confiscation of property is to be given. Whoever violates hunting laws and regulations by hunting in prohibited areas, during prohibited hunting periods, or by using prohibited tools or methods, destroying wildlife resources, and the circumstances are serious, is to be sentenced to up to three years imprisonment, short-term detention, controlled release, or a fine.

Where regulations on the protection and management of wildlife are violated by illegally hunting, purchasing, transporting, or naturally growing and breeding terrestrial wildlife in the wild other than those provided for in the first paragraph of ** for the purpose of consumption, and the circumstances are serious, punishment is to be given in accordance with the provisions of the preceding paragraph.

From 1 January 2018, China will impose a total ban on the processing and sale of ivory for commercial purposes. This means that any ivory product that appears on the Chinese market is illegal.

According to Article 341 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China, the illegal transportation, transportation and acquisition of wildlife products, including ivory products, shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not more than 5 years, or criminal detention and a fine. If the circumstances are serious, the penalty shall be 5 to 10 years' imprisonment. Moments, online e-commerce or forums, online buying and selling ivory products, illegal; It is unlawful to buy or sell ivory and its products in any market, shop or stall; It is illegal to travel abroad and transport ivory souvenirs back to China (unless issued a certificate by the National Administration for the Import and Export of Endangered Species).

In short, from now on, there is no such thing as "legal buying and selling of ivory" in China.

It is estimated that the ivory bought by your friend was not bought in China before 2018, but if you want to buy from your friend and come to China to buy and sell is not legal, you don't need to go to any state department to go through the formalities, because there is no legal ivory trade in China since 2018, so please give up the ivory business, be a legal citizen, and by the way, popularize legal knowledge with your friend, and pull him out of the abyss of illegal ivory trading.

In December 2016, the General Office of the People's Republic of China issued the Notice of the General Office on the Orderly Cessation of Commercial Processing and Sales of Ivory and Its Products, and completely stopped ivory by December 31, 2017.

Before the total ban on trade, the coexistence of legal and illegal ivory products greatly increased the difficulty of law enforcement by regulators, and the misguidance of illegal traders to the public also made ivory ** coaxed, and illegal ** became increasingly rampant. The legality of ivory has instead become an umbrella for the illegal trade. In the five years from 2009 to 2014 alone, at least 170 tonnes of illegal ivory left Africa.

Ivory** on the black market soared from $150 per kilogram in 2008 to $2,100 a kilogram in 2014.

History has shown that efforts to combat the black market** with legal ivory will not have the desired effect, and a total ban on trade will help reverse the decline of wild elephant populations in Africa. China has thousands of years of ivory history and splendid ivory carving culture, and the ivory trade ban demonstrates China's determination and sincerity to end the African elephant poaching crisis, and shows China's sense of responsibility and leadership as an ecological power. The ban sets the tone for global ivory policy trends and is expected to have a demonstration effect that transcends national borders.

Send a strong deterrent message to China's ivory market, global smuggling networks, and poachers in Africa.

In our country, the purchase of ivory is only allowed in designated places approved by the state, and these ivory are marked with a special stupid travel spike. International**, a certain number of monuments are allowed for ivory.

Article 341 of the Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China Whoever illegally hunts or kills rare or endangered wildlife under key national protection, or illegally purchases, transports, or kills rare or endangered wildlife under key national protection and the products thereof, is sentenced to up to five years imprisonment or short-term detention and a concurrent fine; where the circumstances are serious, a sentence of between 5 and 10 years imprisonment and a concurrent fine is to be given. If the circumstances are especially serious, the sentence is to be 10 or more years imprisonment and a concurrent fine or confiscation of property. Violating hunting laws and regulations by hunting in prohibited areas, during hunting ban periods, or by using prohibited tools or methods, destroying wildlife resources, and the circumstances are serious, is to be sentenced to up to three years imprisonment with a sentence of imprisonment, short-term detention, controlled release, or a fine.