As I understand it the EU ban on seal products will exempt those derived from traditional hunts conducted by Inuit in the Canadian Arctic, along with those of native people from Greenland, Alaska and Russia; in such communities there is probably as much reverence for animals in the average hunter as there is in any animal rights activist.

The wording of the European legislation specifically bans products from inhumane slaughter.

You will have to cross the border for your parka Rapaire, the US banned the trade in seal products in 1972.
In recent years, 11 other countries have banned their trade in seal products or announced their intentions to do so.