The city’s ivory traders plan to seek advice from lawyers on the feasibility of mounting a legal challenge against the government’s plan to outlaw all buying and selling in five years, a move they claim is akin to stripping away their property rights.
So Chi-keung, president of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Ivory Manufacturers Association, which represents most of the city’s licensed traders, said all stocks and raw materials in their possession were legal and registered and that...
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