Some countries wish to control the wildlife trade at the national as well as the international level, and impose domestic measures. This provides a secondary level of control if medicines and raw materials have entered a country evading import controls. The following gives examples of some countries that have imposed national laws and regulations to control domestic trade in addition to the implementation of CITES. In May 1993, in response to international conservation concern about the threat to rhinoceroses and tigers posed by the commercial trade, the State Council of the People’s Republic of China issued a ban on trade in rhinoceros horn, tiger bone and their.
