CITES and the EEA

designerseye88

So I'm interested in potentially purchasing a guitar from a company based in one of the European Economic Area (EEA) countries. I wondered what the CITES rules are regarding this. Is it like the rest of Europe where Rosewood can travel freely (I think) or like outside of the EU (the US etc) where it's a massive pain. 

Any help would be much appreciated. 


Thanks 

Whitecat

If it’s all in the “customs union” then no permits needed for IRW. 

Brazilian is still very risky without a CITES passport though. Some countries (looking at you, Germany...) will enforce despite customs union. 

designerseye88

Thanks for the info, it's a guitar coming from Norway so hoping it won't be too much of a problem?

57Deluxe

Wait for Hard Brexit then we won't have to abide by all this bollocks...

WezV

57Deluxe said:

Wait for Hard Brexit then we won't have to abide by all this bollocks...

Er.... how serious are you being?

Whitecat

Uh, yeah, hope that’s tongue firmly in cheek. A “hard” Brexit makes it harder, not easier, to move stuff like this.