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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ken Dorney, post: 2767224, member: 76086&quot;]Many of us have accidentally bought Chinese items illegally, though not with any awareness.&nbsp; A couple times I bought from two people who said they were in Hong Kong (where it is legal to ship) but the post mark was from Shanghai.&nbsp; Both times they breezed through customs, primarily because I think nobody cares.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Back when the Three Rivers Dam project was ramping up there was a huge amount of essentially state ignored looting.&nbsp; Everyone knew millions of artifacts would be flooded and made inaccessible to humanity, so everyone turned a blind eye to what was going on as the government had no ability to preserve much of anything.&nbsp; To my knowledge most of it was funneled through Hong Kong, so in essence it was &#039;made legal&#039;.&nbsp; Kind of like how Irsraeli dealers use their paperwork to keep selling essentially all they want, with a legal paper trail (though my understanding is that this or last year they closed the loopholes).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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