Yeast Importers Playing the Victim of "Injustice"?

One may imagine that US courts have rows and rows of interest groups queuing up to challenge this or that regulation. The ACCG "Baltimore" case is one no doubt of legion examples which will be tust into the courtroom. Almost certainly, the vast majority of these cases will fall into the same pattern. A group of overweight balding old men proclaiming their "Constitutional Rights" to do this or that, that some Gubn'mint agency is not doing the job of government by putting restrictions on the activity, I bet a goodly number of them try to make the case that there is a "conspiracy" and "gubn'mint malpractice" behind it, and then protest that justice is not being done when they fail to get what they would consider a "proper hearing of their grievances".  I bet the  Amateur Yeast Cake Baking Guild is upset about US restriction on the import of certain live yeast cultures from Eastern Europe, the Olomouc Pickled Sausage Appreciation Club might have similar reservations on US import regulations on certain types of cured meats. You can imagine that as such cases are dismissed by the courts we would hear them all complaining to their members about the "rubber stamp of Injustice" and the gubn'mint acceding to the demands of some mythical "Bonkers Bakers" and "Radical Butchers". Meanwhile their lawyers trundle along chuckling to the bank. 

The problem with antiquity collectors seems to be that they cannot distance themselves from a matter like this and see themselves in a wider context. For them their collecting is an identity-forming factor. They are not fat balding old men with a nerdish hobby but (as they continually stress) they see themselves as the heirs of the noble sport of Renaissance humanists and the landed gentry of the European Enlightenment period. Tell them that it ain't so, and they get very defensive (as we have seen). The ACCG have got themselves caught up in some narrow focussed little world of their own which crowds out any other considerations, other realities.

The rest of us can see that in any case where there might be a doubt, making available at the time of import one of the two types of pieces of paper required by the CCPIA is not exactly an onerous requirement on any importer. Have a look at the actual text of the Act, not what coiney lobbyists say it contains, and see for yourself. Meanwhile all over the US, importers of all sorts of goods (including coins and antiquities) are receiving their goods without any disturbance from US customs, simply because they've got the paperwork right.