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Originally Posted by Agemegos
There's a lot of antique ivory around, though. And though its sale is controversial, and provides cover for the poached product, it is still legal in most places. Also, there is mammoth ivory from Siberia.
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Indeed.
I was just reading up on the US import regulations and the availability of mammoth ivory (which is legally distinct from elephant ivory and
not covered by the same international treaties, though CITES has proposed changing that).
It looks like the five ethnic Chinese cultists who travel through California are likely to have all sorts of mystical and esoteric paraphernalia made from mammoth ivory, as the vast majority of the world's supply is traded through China and their organization has already been established as concerned with all sorts of grey- and black-market arrangemets rellated to the Pacific shipping trade between Asia and the Americas.
They can bring extra ivory and other esoteric supplies of questionable legality or tastefulness to share with other cultists, but they won't be able to use it until they all meet up somewhere near Indianola around dark the evening of the 29th of December, 2018.
Some of the cultists landing in Texas might carry personally--owned antique items made from elephant or mammoth ivory, depending on what the Consortium lawyer in Peru they consulted (before those allies became potentially compromised) told them about how much trouble carrying such objects through customs might be.
Do you have to carry paperwork establishing antique status or certifications that the object is mammoth ivory, not elephant? Do you apply for a permission before you land or is this done with a harassed CBP agent on the airport?