EBay to Ban Sale of Ivory Items

October 24, 2008 · Filed Under Business · Comment 

Popular online auction portal eBay has decided to ban the sale of ivory products to help save the African and Asian elephants from being killed for their tusks which is the source of the inordinately expensive material.

The ban will go into effect in December this year and will be enforced from January 2009, announced an eBay official on Tuesday. While the company will allow sale of products with small amounts of ivory like pianos, they must have been manufactured before the year 1900. However products containing large amounts of ivory will not be allowed for sale regardless of the year of their making. Among the products expected to be banned by this policy are chess sets, ivory broaches as well as other jewellery items made of ivory.

eBay decided to take the step to ban all ivory products since it had become impossible for the company to ensure that the product for sale was in compliance with the complex regulations governing the sale of ivory products, wrote Richard Brewer-Hay in the company blog, eBay Ink.

Last year eBay had imposed a ban on cross-border sales of ivory products but sales had continued unhindered. The decision to ban all ivory products from December onwards was welcomed by the Humane Society International as well as the Humane Society of the United States which had brought into eBay’s notice as early as 2002 the sale of thousands of ivory products being conducted on its site.

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