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105TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 105-495
RHINO AND TIGER PRODUCT LABELING ACT
APRIL 28, 1998.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of
the Union and ordered to be printed
Mr. YOUNG of Alaska, from the Committee on Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 2807]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Resources, to whom was referred the bill
(H.R. 2807) to amend the Rhinoceros and Tiger Conservation Act
of 1994 to prohibit the sale, importation, and exportation of prod-
ucts labeled as containing substances derived from rhinoceros or
tiger, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with an
amendment and recommend that the bill as amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert in lieu thereof
the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Rhino and Tiger Product Labeling Act.
SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON SALE, IMPORTATION, AND EXPORTATION OF PRODUCTS LABELED
AS CONTAINING A SUBSTANCE DERIVED FROM RHINOCEROS OR TIGER.
(a) FINDINGS.-The Congress finds the following:
(1) The populations of several magnificent and unique endangered species of
rhinoceros and tigers, such as the Indian rhinoceros, the Javan rhinoceros, the
African black rhinoceros, and all of the tiger subspecies, continue to decline.
(2) Growing demand throughout the world for wildlife and wildlife parts and
products has created a market in which commercial exploitation has threatened
certain rhinoceros and tiger populations.
(3) There are insufficient legal mechanisms enabling the United States Fish
and Wildlife Service to forcefully interdict products that are labeled as contain-
ing substances derived from rhinoceros or tiger species and prosecute the mer-
chandisers for sale or display of those products.
(4) Although approximately 77,000 import and export shipments occur annu-
ally in the United States, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service is able
to maintain only 92 wildlife inspectors at 30 ports of entry, including 13 des-
ignated ports, to monitor the shipments.
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