16 U.S.C. § 4244 : US Code - Section 4244: Definitions

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In this chapter -
(1) the term "African elephant" means any animal of the species
loxodonta africana;
(2) the term "CITES" means the Convention on the International
Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora;
(3) the term "CITES Ivory Control System" means the ivory quota
and marking system established by CITES to curtail illegal trade
in African elephant ivory;
(4) the term "Fund" means the account established by division
A, section 101(e), title I of Public Law 105-277 under the
heading "multinational species conservation fund" [16 U.S.C.
4246];
(5) the terms "import" and "importation" have the meanings such
terms have in the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531
et seq.);
(6) the term "intermediary country" means a country that
exports raw or worked ivory that does not originate in that
country;
(7) the term "ivory producing country" means any African
country within which is located any part of the range of a
population of African elephants;
(8) the term "ivory quota" means a quota submitted by an ivory
producing country to the CITES Secretariat in accordance with the
CITES Ivory Control System;
(9) the term "personal effects" means articles which are not
intended for sale and are part of a shipment of the household
effects of a person who is moving his or her residence to or from
the United States, or are included in personal accompanying
baggage;
(10) the term "raw ivory" means any African elephant tusk, and
any piece thereof, the surface of which, polished or unpolished,
is unaltered or minimally carved;
(11) the term "Secretary" means the Secretary of the Interior;
(12) the term "United States" means the fifty States, the
District of Columbia, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern
Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the
territories and possessions of the United States; and
(13) the term "worked ivory" means any African elephant tusk,
and any piece thereof, which is not raw ivory.