The sale of UK WC non native species appears to be legal but it also masks the sale of WC EU alpines. I deal with aquatic wholesalers weekly, they quite openly say the get WC EU newts which I doubt is legal. There is nothing we can't breed if we put the time, effort and expense into. One benefit of a ban on wc imports would be to encourage UK cb, you yourself know how much you can get for a cfbn, less than a tenner after months of work and a whole lot of love, the reason is that wholesalers sell WC for £1.99, it depresses the price to such an extent that nobody will attempt to breed them commercially here. This goes for numerous species which breed readily, captive farmed hymenichorus and xenopus go for less than a pound, adult alpines a couple of pounds, croc newts around ten pounds. An import ban could potentially kick start cb .