FRT legality status
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They are illegal without any paper work.
And if you're traveling back from another country, then you can forget it. You can't just simply "bring one back". There are strict regulations on reptiles.
And if you're traveling back from another country, then you can forget it. You can't just simply "bring one back". There are strict regulations on reptiles.
They are legal from a lfs or US distributor without paperwork. They are legal to export from Indonesia with government-issued export permits and legal to enter a US animal port of entry with the export permits issued by the Indonesian government (to meet the requirements of the Lacey Act) and an import permit (issued to an approved animal-related business) from the US government. FRTs from Australia and New Guinea are completely illegal due to an export ban by those countries (supported by the Lacey Act). FRTs are currently listed as CITES Appendix II meaning trade is allowed with the following conditions:
3.2 Legal international trade
Neither Australia nor Papua New Guinea allow export or domestic trade of the species. Export from Indonesia is only permitted in the case of captive-bred animals, which is interpreted as including animals hatched in captivity from wild-collected eggs incubated under semi-controlled, captive conditions (Samedi and Iskandar 2000). No export quota was set for the species by the CITES Management Authority in 1998 (Samedi and Iskandar 2000).
3.2 Legal international trade
Neither Australia nor Papua New Guinea allow export or domestic trade of the species. Export from Indonesia is only permitted in the case of captive-bred animals, which is interpreted as including animals hatched in captivity from wild-collected eggs incubated under semi-controlled, captive conditions (Samedi and Iskandar 2000). No export quota was set for the species by the CITES Management Authority in 1998 (Samedi and Iskandar 2000).
