For importing countries, an inability to tell them apart, combined with the great size of the trade and the large number of people involved, make it virtually impossible to carry out legally based seizures of protected species 'shells and punish the offending importers or to implement a general ban on the import and export of products made from protected species.
尤其對進出口龜板國家，無法鑑定保育類物種，加上顧慮龜板市場龐大，牽涉人眾，更不可能依法實際執行沒收保育類龜板、懲罰進口商、禁止保育類產製品進出口的工作，出現保育類龜板也就不足為奇了。