Import restrictions increase prices for consumers and divert labour and capital to the protected industry away from more productive uses.

Import restrictions — by tariffs, quotas or export subsidies — damage consumers' living standards by raising prices and reducing choice.

Second, tariff rates started coming down even faster and quantitative import restrictions were becoming history---which increased the threat of imports.

In response, the government relaxed import restrictions and abolished export taxes.

Ferrets under three months old are not subject to any import restrictions.