The final regulations issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service pertaining to the African eleghant ivory ban will become effective on on July 6, 2016.

This is the link to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service website and the final regulations that became effective on July 6, 2016, click: http://www.fws.gov/i...answers.html#23

This is the link to the full text of the new rules, click: https://www.fws.gov/...elephant-4d.pdf

I read the full document to which Dan Cassidy gave us a link. Here is a quote from the full document, "Ivory from extinct species,such as mammoth, is not regulated under statutes implemented by the Service. The only type of ivory regulated under this final rule is African elephant ivory." I thought some of you might appreciate the quote. Of course, that does not mean that an inspector will know the difference between mammoth and elephant. However, other live species and their ivory are regulated under other statutes (e.g., walrus).