Thread: Hong Kong craft shop staff filmed advising customers on how to smuggle Ivory.

Hong Kong craft shop staff secretly filmed advising customers how to smuggle ivory across border | South China Morning Post

Employees at two established craft stores in Hong Kong advised undercover reporters on how to illegally smuggle ivory across borders, according to a British news report.

Raw video footage shared with the South China Morning Post shows employees of Chinese Arts and Crafts in Admiralty and Yue Hwa on Nathan Road telling the British TV reporters, who posed as customers, how to avoid customs when smuggling ivory across borders.

Ivory is “easy to take out, even if you go through the metal [detector], there’s no sign. You [just] hide it somewhere”, one elderly salesman at Yue Hwa told the reporters from broadcaster ITN. “Still, according to the book, it is illegal.”

While the undeclared import and export of ivory is illegal in Hong Kong, trade remains legal and registered dealers can export ivory dating to before a global ban was imposed in 1989.

Selling ivory to customers who plan to illegally take it abroad goes against company policy, an employee of Chinese Arts and Crafts (HK) Limited told the Post in a reaction to the report. Sales staff were instructed to inform customers that they could not export ivory, the company said in a statement.

The chain of four stores is a subsidiary of Hong Kong-listed China Resources Enterprise, which takes “all accountable and practicable measures to minimise the impacts that our business operations may have on the environment” according to its latest corporate social responsibility report.

fork tongue rules.

These shops create a demand for ivory from source,if they did not exist the pouching of Elephants would cease.