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Unless the phone was first bought overseas. This may have big implications for second-hand markets like ebay as you can not really be sure where a good sold on ebay was manufactured, which countries it was authorized to import and who has the authority to authorize that. In fact, with such decision, each foreign item becomes potentially a problem for the buyer unless he has a proven certificate from original manufacturer authorizing import into the country the buyer is resident in. This of course would be a huge boon for these manufacturers as they would be able to charge extra for such certificates and suppress secondary markets. But it would not be as good for the consumers.