Marine Turtle Newsletter 55:14, © 1991
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Marine Turtle Newsletter 55:14, © 1991
MEXICO JOINS CITES-The Secretariat [of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species] has informed the United States that Mexico deposited its instrument of accession to CITES, and will become the 111th Party effective 30 September 1991, without reservations.
SEA TURTLE TRADE-On 2 July 1991, [U. S.] Secretary of the Interior Lujan and [U. S.] Secretary of Commerce Mossbacher notified President Bush that, as a result of the Pelly Amendment certification of Japan for diminishing the effectiveness of CITES (and subsequent discussions), Japan announced that: it has ended its trade in olive ridley sea turtle skins; it will limit its imports of hawksbill shell to 7.5 metric tons between now and 31 December 1992; it will not import any more hawksbill shell after 31 December 1992; it will remove its hawksbill [CITES] reservation by July 1994. The Pelly Amendment certification of Japan will remain in place until Japan withdraws its sea turtle reservations.
THAILAND BAN-On 15 July 1991, the [U. S.] Fish and Wildlife Service published a Notice of Information in the Federal Register announcing to the public a ban on trade in CITES-listed wildlife with Thailand, effective 31 July 1991. The Service will not clear for importation any shipments of CITES wildlife that are exported or re-exported from Thailand, nor will it approve for export to Thailand any CITES-listed wildlife species. Source: Department of the Interior, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service CITES Update, No. 9, July 1991.