A US person can be federally charged for violating a foreign law while overseas. The example used when I read of this was a guy convicted for wrapping lobsters for shipment in Nicaragua in wax paper instead of a bag (or something along those lines).
It was very strange because the violation in Nicaragua was a misdemeanor, but the US law for committing a crime is a felony.
I think OP said: An UK citizen can be extradicted from the UK to the US just by having done a thing that it is illegal in the US but not in the UK.
You said: An US citizen can be charged in the US if he committed a crime abroad even if that thing is not typified as illegal in the US.
Wake me up when an US citizen is extradicted to the UK because he did something perfectly legal in Washington but which is considered a crime in London.
If it were the case, I suppose tens of millions of US people could be extradited that way given the differences in free speech laws - a lot of what is said in US is probably a crime [IANAL] in UK :)
UK's sovereignty is a joke.
https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/100739/response/25520...
https://fas.org/irp/world/uk/extradite.pdf
The story itself is about a person who committed a crime that is a crime in both locations so...
But it is limited to trade of plants and animals, not meant as a general extradition agreement or to import _all_ foreign laws.
https://humanevents.com/2014/05/30/the-true-villains-behind-...
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson#FWS_raids_&_Lacey_Act_v...
The CEO of Gibson knew that he was illegally importing wood, and did it anyway. His comparatively tiny donations to the GOP were irrelevant.
Both Martin and Taylor ran far, far away from this scheme.
Gibson absolutely deserved the whacking they got.
You can get around these problems in a legal way and be somewhat responsible. Taylor, famously, bought all the ebony stands in the world and promised to buy all ebony at the same price because the local population were cutting down rare ebony trees and leaving them to rot if they didn't have black heartwood. This, of course, creates a monopoly which is its own problem ... however, any solution you come up with has to take into account that the locals will destroy the extremely rare ebony trees for absurdly small (to us) amounts of money.
You can work within the legal frameworks, and Gibson has more than enough staff to be able to comply. Gibson isn't some tiny company that unjustly trod by the government. Had you or I done this, we would be rotting in jail. Gibson merely got a fine and even got its wood back.
Wow--
(I do get we should not be importing endangered s pieces of wood. This seems like someone overreacted? I guess the moral of the story is don't play around with the feds?)
Exotic wood is in many ways like conflict diamonds. It funds some quite horrible people who will denude a country of its exotic wood if allowed--we have seen this in action already.
Enforcement is far easier on the US side than on the origin side--which is normally some corrupt as hell dictatorship with people who are brutally poor.