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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DustyD" data-source="post: 209543" data-attributes="member: 36911">More fear mongering from Padraig Sea who has  previously stated that the amendment has nothing to do with conservation and that the federal government wants to prohibit all exotic pets.I am not saying this is good or bad legislation. Based on what you provided and contrary to what you state,  there are provisions for input and stipulations that species that have been previously imported in the previous year in more than minimal numbers would not be prohibited, unless they posed a danger.The provisions of the amendment would prohibit species UNLESS:"(A) during the 1-year period preceding the date of enactment of the America COMPETES Act of 2022, the species was, in more than minimal quantities‘‘(i) imported into the United States; or ‘‘(ii) transported between the States, any territory of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or any possession of the United States; or(And here is the public input provision)‘‘(B) the Secretary of the Interior determines, after an opportunity for public comment, that the species does not pose a significant risk of invasiveness to the United States and publishes a notice in the Federal Register of the determination."</blockquote>Today USFWS is denying entry to animals from over a dozen countries on the basis that they were never exported legally. In many cases these are species that have already been imported to the US in the tens of thousands, and where there is ample evidence that founder stock was exported legally.[/QUOTE]Which species? Chile is banning exports of some of it's tarantulas which thereby requires the US FWS to block their entry too. And I would think that tens of thousands of animals would qualify as more than minimal.[/QUOTE]

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