And up here in the northeastern corner of Europe, it's even worse. I don't know about the bureaucracy involved with importing from the US, but as I've pointed out a couple of times before, nobody really wants to import inexpensive snakes even within the EU and even if it doesn't involve any extra charge or paperwork.
And that's why I probably have 10% of all the garters in Finland at the moment.
IIRC, there are about 700-800 "pet" snakes in the entire country.