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Old 17 April 2009, 04:43 PM
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I am in Thailand and wife likes some shoes and hand bags made of snake skin. Is it legal to bring back to the UK? I have seen people with them in the UK but don't know if its okay to bring it back.
Old 17 April 2009, 04:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Jer
I am in Thailand and wife likes some shoes and hand bags made of snake skin. Is it legal to bring back to the UK? I have seen people with them in the UK but don't know if its okay to bring it back.
Don't see why not, unless they're from an endangered snake. Dunno who you'd ask to find out though, sorry!

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google "cites"
Old 17 April 2009, 05:22 PM
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BBC News | UK | Tourists warned about 'illegal' souvenirs

http://customs.hmrc.gov.uk/channelsP...HMCE_CL_001734
Old 17 April 2009, 08:40 PM
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I dont think you'll have a problem. I use exotic leathers, python, ostrich, croc amongst some, and the ones that get imported over to the uk have tags. The tags have a trace to their origins to ensure the animals were farmed and bought from renewable sources.

Who's to say your wife didnt buy them over here and take them away? Once they are made goods there is no way to identify the origins.
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i've walked through heathrow customs with a 4ft stuffed alligator , no problems
Old 17 April 2009, 09:26 PM
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Originally Posted by spireite
i've walked through heathrow customs with a 4ft stuffed alligator , no problems
The question is what was it stuffed with.................................?
Old 17 April 2009, 09:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Scooby Blue WRX
The question is what was it stuffed with.................................?

Bugger all , i walked through heathrow at 1 30 in the morning with it over my shoulder in 1988 . there was no one around i couldn't believe it
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Should be alright, but better that the snake is not still in it.

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