These appear to be live imports.

I found a chart that shows yearly live imports calculated by CITES. I've posted a copy of the chart below.

Here also is a further statement about the import numbers:

"Indian Pythons are desirable because of their beauty and ease of handling. These attributes, combined with a very low cost for wild juveniles coming out of Southeast Asia, has long allowed the Burmese Python to be a mainstay of the exotic reptile trade. Groombridge and Luxmoore (1991) reported that export of live Burmese Pythons from Thailand peaked in 1985 at 25,000, after which Thailand curtailed the trade. The following year, Malaysian exports of the nonresident species jumped from 94 to 15,006, suggesting that much of the trade was rerouted in response to Thailand’s export ban. Reed (2005) tabulated U.S. importation records for 24 species of boas and pythons during the period 1989–2000, which indicated that Burmese Pythons4 were the fourth most popular snake (behind P. regius, B. constrictor, and B. reticulatus), at 12,466 recorded importations. The number of snakes imported increased sharply over the last decade, with 99,000 individuals imported from 1996 through 2006 (Harvey and others, 2008,
4 There is no legal trade in Indian Pythons that are not of the Burmese subspecies; thus all importation records for the species are referred to Python molurus bivittatus.
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based on LEMIS import records). It is notable that not all import records were identifiable to species (thus the cited figure is a minimum), and domestic sources (undocumented) are believed to constitute a significant additional source (unpub. records of Florida Wildlife Comm., Law Enforcement). CITES records (Fig. 4.4) show wide swings in annual imports, with a sharp decline in recent years that CITES notes may be at least partially due to incomplete records tabulated since 2005."

Both the chart and the statement quoted above can be found here:

http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2009/1202/pdf/OF09-1202.pdf



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0.1 Peruvian rainbow boa (Amaru)
2.0 Brazilian rainbow boas (TBA)
0.3 Honduran milksnakes (Chicchan, Chanir, Hari)
1.0 Thayeri kingsnake (TBA)
2.7 corns (Cetto, Tolosa, TBA)
1,000,000.1,000,000 other critters

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