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Author Topic: New CITES Regulations (Rosewood) effective Jan 2017  (Read 3568 times)

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Systematic Chaos

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Since it´s been relatively quiet on the new CITES regulations in here I thought I´d put it up since it will affect us all at some point:
https://reverb.com/news/new-cites-regulations-for-all-rosewood-species

https://www.fws.gov/international/pdf/questions-and-answers-appendix-II-timber-listings-December-2016.pdf
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Wow, thanks SC. So anyone selling an instrument with any rosewood in it (across international boarders (as I understand it)) has to have a certificate.
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Seems this doesn't cover all rosewoods, though it does cover ~300 species.
As usual, they do this with no notice at all; same as when Brazilian rosewood got covered.
Not that I mind protection of endangered species, but just how they always time these measures.

And isn't it interesting that Ebony, which is mostly available from Cameroon and Madagascar, isn't endangered..
Seems to me they chose rosewood and some related species like cocobolo - which may indeed be endangered - because those are found in 9 out of ten instruments.
Just called our Ministry of Nature, but off opening hours. Will post back on what they say about selling instruments as a privateer within the EU.
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Called the DK authority this morning. Things are a bit fuzzy, and potentially bloody annoying.
There's a lengthy thread on the topic at sevenstring.org, with my comments on what I was told here, in post #74

Dammit, 'course I have two instrument to sell, containing rosewood and bubinga..
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