article_snippet.sent: ' Demand: The country's largest purchaser of sealskin announced that The country's largest purchaser of sealskin will no longer purchase the fur from seals who are killed and skinned (pictured) during commercial hunts .
article_snippet.sent: The demand for seal products diminished greatly after the European Union, United States, Switzerland, Mexico, Taiwan and the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Armenia banned the trade of some or all products of commercial seal hunts.
article_snippet.sent: With China also blocking attempts to import seal meat into the country, the price of seal products from Canada declined rapidly and convinced many 'sealers' to abandon the act.
article_snippet.sent: Only this week the country's largest purchaser of sealskin announced that the country's largest purchaser of sealskin will no longer purchase seal fur, citing a lack of demand and a warehouse full of the country's largest purchaser of sealskin.
article_snippet.sent: But a new company PhocaLux International is accepting government funds and has stated a new company PhocaLux International  will purchase around 30,000 seal furs, according to CBC.
highlights_snippet.sent: Demand has diminished after purchase of seal products was banned by both European Union and the United States .
  