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Re: The nightmare is over!! CITES to exempt musical instruments from rosewood ban

Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 10:03 am
by hamo
vyfster wrote:I hope it will be effective immediately! Wife is travelling to the US of A on Sunday.
Mine goes on Saturday, but she won't be bringing me back a guitar... :thumbdown:

Re: The nightmare is over!! CITES to exempt musical instruments from rosewood ban

Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 10:47 am
by Conway
You've always been allowed to carry them in person, so that's not an issue. I have been stuffed around buying guitars from offshore and having them shipped due to CITES.

Re: The nightmare is over!! CITES to exempt musical instruments from rosewood ban

Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 7:19 pm
by Bg
hamo wrote:
vyfster wrote:I hope it will be effective immediately! Wife is travelling to the US of A on Sunday.
Mine goes on Saturday, but she won't be bringing me back a guitar... :thumbdown:

Yeah but party in your pants while she's away!!!

Re: The nightmare is over!! CITES to exempt musical instruments from rosewood ban

Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2019 1:44 pm
by hamo
Bg wrote:
hamo wrote:
vyfster wrote:I hope it will be effective immediately! Wife is travelling to the US of A on Sunday.
Mine goes on Saturday, but she won't be bringing me back a guitar... :thumbdown:

Yeah but party in your pants while she's away!!!
True, it's long past due for my head to get a workout, it's just been gathering dust. Might play some guitar too...

Re: The nightmare is over!! CITES to exempt musical instruments from rosewood ban

Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 11:35 am
by handsoffmatt
Conway wrote:You've always been allowed to carry them in person, so that's not an issue.
Technically not true. The CITES rosewood ban applied also to personal instruments being carried. It seems that NZ Customs took a fairly lax view to it (good on them!) so I didn't hear of many problems in NZ....however there have been PLENTY of problems overseas with orchestra and band members in other countries having massive customs issues due to not carrying CITES documentation for the instruments they were travelling with.

Re: The nightmare is over!! CITES to exempt musical instruments from rosewood ban

Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 4:13 pm
by Molly
I've a guidance document for the European Union which outlines how CITES should be interpreted with regard to accompanied rosewood. Feel sure it states that you're ok up to 10kg.

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/cites/p ... _clean.pdf

Re: The nightmare is over!! CITES to exempt musical instruments from rosewood ban

Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 4:28 pm
by Dharmajester
Tempted to order solid Rosewood boatnecks for my Strat and Tele now :crazy:

Re: The nightmare is over!! CITES to exempt musical instruments from rosewood ban

Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 4:42 pm
by Molly
Dharmajester wrote:Tempted to order solid Rosewood boatnecks for my Strat and Tele now :crazy:
You leave that Strat alone! It's still not off my radar. Just need some, you know, money that coincides with it being for sale.