Mozambique is issued a legitimate CITES quota but a US citizen is also required to have an import permit from the US F&WS who have decided that they don't consider Mozambique has a properly planned Elephant management plan in place, and so they refuse to issue the import permit.

Citizens of other countries such as the UK and Europe are allowed to import Mozambican ivory.

There are a lot of other choices of venue for Elephant hunting, Zim is a good option if price is high on your list of priorities, but as we all know it does have it's problems.

Botswana is a good but expensive option if you want a trophy Elephant - you'll probably need to book early though, but if you want a PAC animal, it might be a good option. For example, we offer PACs (mature bulls only) for US$5K each as part of a plains game and/or Leopard hunt and we also offer a elephant hunt package for US$10K including all camp fees, 'trophy' (if that's the right word) fee, licences and permits. (Again, mature bulls only) One hunt is in the Tuli Block and the latter is in the tribal lands behind the Tuli Block.

Another good but expensive option (esp since the recent price increases) is Tanzania. They reopened Masailand Elephant hunting (on normal permit) this year without any prior announcenment and you can expect to see a few monsters being taken over the next few years. - It's a 21 day hunt there for Elephant but you are also allowed to take Lion, Leopard, Croc, Hippo and a whole lot more of the 'lesser' species.

There are also a few more options available to you and I'm sure that other forum members will be happy to advise further on other African countries.