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Even worse if you look at the info required for Brazilian rosewood, be it you buying from the USA via a courier or a shop visit and plain home - restriction might also be in place for mother of pearl inlays and/or certain inlays and ivory + tortoise shell for say binding and inlays - It is a mess - I had an e-mail to and fro chat last week with the CITES UK office regarding such issues and probably easier to understand the Big Bang theory, to the point that if you bring a guitar into the UK, all goes well and you end up with an Article 10 licence to be able to sell it at a later date, you'll breathe a big sigh of relief
There are talks underway at Government level, CITES and the Music Trade association to see what can be done about the used market and how it is restrictive - take into account this has an impact on pianos, violins etc and other instruments - To a degree I can understand a policy of CITES on new woods, but the restriction on used is 100% pointless - It is a pain to buy, sell and gig with such guitars and it is not going to save the planet
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Easy to say I'm biased as a dealer, but CITES on used guitars is a total pain and a ludicrous idea - How the hell does not selling a 10/20/30 year old guitar to a customer overseas save the planet - If anything it is helping as it means you are not buying a new guitar that has only recently required a tree to be felled
USA is soooo big, they just don't have to bother. Equally, for a lot of people over in the states they really don't have much experience or desire to think internationally. That's not a slight on the USA, it's just that they don't need to.
By default being in a small island in the world like we are, a lot of people are very comfortable buying things from overseas ... many people are incredibly comfortable taking holidays abroad with different currencies and cultures (even if that's a long weekend in Ibiza ...)
USA less so ... I decided to look up the numbers:
- Total number of US citizens 325,365,189 (https://www.census.gov/popclock/)
- Total number of valid US passports 136,114,038 (https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/passports/after/passport-statistics.html)
It's effort for people, so why would they? A few times I've had to explain to US based eBay people how to ship something to me in the UK. It's just a bit alien.
As a great example, in the UK we're very used to USA telly, so we're comfortable understanding that garbage means rubbish ... sidewalk means footpath etc. Use those terms in the US and it throws a lot of people. They do get some British TV over in the states, but it's much more niche. Same for films well.
Anyway ... rant over!
There are plenty of disreputable ones though....
I've heard of 4-8 week delays between the USA export and EU imported certificates granted
I've heard of parcels left in customs awaiting clearance of CITES certificate for days so you've done well
The original import certificate must travel with the shipment so has to physically be sent from the UK to the US. I can't see how it was processed and mailed to the US in under a week.
did you buy it in 2017 or before. 2016 and co certificate required
You guys should check out Gregor Hilden on YouTube. I think he’s based in Germany. Beautiful player and sells vintage and higher end gear too.
• Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/@Goldeneraguitars