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    Default Update on CITES

    At a two-week meeting in Panama earlier this month, a group of nations hammered out an agreement on traveling with instruments that contain banned substances.

    Basically, if you are crossing international borders with an instrument for personal use, paid or unpaid performances, display, or competition, you're good if you have the proper documentation. (Sales, of course, are not covered.) Documentation lasts for three years and covers multiple trips out of your country.

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    Sounds great. What's the "proper documentation" and how do you get it.

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    Sounds great. What's the "proper documentation" and how do you get it.

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    They talk about a "musical instrument certificate," aka a MIC. (Not sure what the procedure would be to get one.) An orchestra, for example, can get a single MIC to cover all the players' gear. As CITES is looking at cracking down on pernambuco, the wood used in bows, this is huge.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Louise NM View Post
    They talk about a "musical instrument certificate," aka a MIC. (Not sure what the procedure would be to get one.) An orchestra, for example, can get a single MIC to cover all the players' gear. As CITES is looking at cracking down on pernambuco, the wood used in bows, this is huge.
    Thanks for the link to this, Louise.
    Welcome steps in the right direction, but the coast isn't exactly clear:

    11. In recent years, more Parties have implemented the use of MICs in accordance with Resolution Conf.
    16.8 (Rev. CoP17) (see Notification to the Parties No. 2021/050) but some Parties have not implemented
    this system for issuance of CITES documents and acceptance of CITES documents issued by other Parties.
    Additionally, variations in the format of CITES documents and what they authorize has led to
    confusion among CITES authorities and enforcement agencies.

    12. Beyond differences in CITES documents, musicians traveling internationally with instruments may
    encounter additional complexities where Parties implement stricter domestic measures, which are allowed
    pursuant to Article XIV, paragraph 1 of the Convention. These differing requirements may be confusing
    and complicate efforts to prepare for non-commercial movement of a musical instrument in advance.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Louise NM View Post
    They talk about a "musical instrument certificate," aka a MIC. (Not sure what the procedure would be to get one.) An orchestra, for example, can get a single MIC to cover all the players' gear. As CITES is looking at cracking down on pernambuco, the wood used in bows, this is huge.
    Ideally, any crackdown on Pernambuco will be seen as the red herring it is. Brazil was all over it as a smokescreen to divert attention from the fact that they're trying to destroy rainforest as quickly as possible for maximum commercial gain. Pernambuco isn't the real issue that Brazil would like us to think it is. It's been grown on plantations specifically for a sustainable trade and most pernambuco that's lost from wild growth is usually destroyed since it's of no value to the tropical hardwood industry (to whom mahogany IS).

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