There are two things that you must know before you should even waste your time trying to start the paperwork process here in the US. First, can the supplier get CITIES documents, and considering there was almost no animals legally exported from Australia the chances of the EU country supplying a CITIES is doubtful. And second, the animals must be the result of captive breeding (often this means F-2, but not always), so the supplier has to be able to certify that the animals were CB.



Be careful here because people have all kinds of schemes for acquiring these documents that are not legal, and if false documents are detected at import, at minimum you will lose the animals and be out all of the costs, and at worse you could even be sent to prison (not likely without a rap-sheet, but the cost of a criminal lawyer generally starts with a $10,000 retainer!).



And Yep, all the critters you mention are technically illegal, but going through all the trouble of convicting people for these animals at this point is cost prohibitive, but some day, some smart alec is going to go to a show with a new species for sale, and leave in handcuffs. It’s just a matter of time.



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