Dave Weinstein Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 Does anyone have an agent they can recommend in the UK that they trust to handle the paperwork to bring an instrument containing Ebony into the United States? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saguaro_squeezer Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 Dave, there's that rumor going around that the regulations for instruments have been updated and allegedly that everything not Appendix 1 does not require a certificate. I looked at the appendicies here: https://www.cites.org/eng/app/appendices.php and only found one Ebony and it was on appendix 2. Worth looking into ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Hulme Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 As far as I am aware only Madagascar ebony falls under a CITES agreement - this agreement came into force sometime in 2013, so if the instrument is pre-2013 then it will be CITES exempt. I think that's the one which saguarro squeezer refers to. Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Weinstein Posted December 3, 2019 Author Share Posted December 3, 2019 The new CITES change for instruments only affects the Dalbergia rules. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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