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Part 23 — Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)

74 sections · Title 50: Wildlife and Fisheries

§ 23.1What are the purposes of these regulations and CITES?
§ 23.2How do I decide if these regulations apply to my shipment or me?
§ 23.3What other wildlife and plant regulations may apply?
§ 23.4What are Appendices I, II, and III?
§ 23.5How are the terms used in these regulations defined?
§ 23.6What are the roles of the Management and Scientific Authorities?
§ 23.7What office do I contact for CITES information?
§ 23.8What are the information collection requirements?
§ 23.9Incorporation by reference.
§ 23.13What is prohibited?
§ 23.14§ 23.14 [Reserved]
§ 23.15How may I travel internationally with my personal or household effects, including tourist souvenirs?
§ 23.16What are the U.S. CITES requirements for urine, feces, and synthetically derived DNA?
§ 23.17What are the requirements for CITES specimens traded internationally by diplomatic, consular, military, and other persons exempt from customs duties or inspections?
§ 23.18What CITES documents are required to export Appendix-I wildlife?
§ 23.19What CITES documents are required to export Appendix-I plants?
§ 23.20What CITES documents are required for international trade?
§ 23.21What happens if a country enters a reservation for a species?
§ 23.22What are the requirements for in-transit shipments?
§ 23.23What information is required on U.S. and foreign CITES documents?
§ 23.24What code is used to show the source of the specimen?
§ 23.25What additional information is required on a non-Party CITES document?
§ 23.26When is a U.S. or foreign CITES document valid?
§ 23.27What CITES documents do I present at the port?
§ 23.32How do I apply for a U.S. CITES document?
§ 23.33How is the decision made to issue or deny a request for a U.S. CITES document?
§ 23.34What kinds of records may I use to show the origin of a specimen when I apply for a U.S. CITES document?
§ 23.35What are the requirements for an import permit?
§ 23.36What are the requirements for an export permit?
§ 23.37What are the requirements for a re-export certificate?
§ 23.38What are the requirements for a certificate of origin?
§ 23.39What are the requirements for an introduction-from-the-sea certificate?
§ 23.40What are the requirements for a certificate for artificially propagated plants?
§ 23.41What are the requirements for a bred-in-captivity certificate?
§ 23.42What are the requirements for a plant hybrid?
§ 23.43What are the requirements for a wildlife hybrid?
§ 23.44What are the requirements for traveling internationally with my personally owned live wildlife?
§ 23.45What are the requirements for a pre-Convention specimen?
§ 23.46What are the requirements for registering a commercial breeding operation for Appendix-I wildlife and commercially exporting specimens?
§ 23.47What are the requirements for export of an Appendix-I plant artificially propagated for commercial purposes?
§ 23.48What are the requirements for a registered scientific institution?
§ 23.49What are the requirements for an exhibition traveling internationally?
§ 23.50What are the requirements for a sample collection covered by an ATA carnet?
§ 23.51What are the requirements for issuing a partially completed CITES document?
§ 23.52What are the requirements for replacing a lost, damaged, stolen, or accidentally destroyed CITES document?
§ 23.53What are the requirements for obtaining a retrospective CITES document?
§ 23.54How long is a U.S. or foreign CITES document valid?
§ 23.55How may I use a CITES specimen after import into the United States?
§ 23.56What U.S. CITES document conditions do I need to follow?
§ 23.60What factors are considered in making a legal acquisition finding?
§ 23.61What factors are considered in making a non-detriment finding?
§ 23.62What factors are considered in making a finding of not for primarily commercial purposes?
§ 23.63What factors are considered in making a finding that an animal is bred in captivity?
§ 23.64What factors are considered in making a finding that a plant is artificially propagated?
§ 23.65What factors are considered in making a finding that an applicant is suitably equipped to house and care for a live specimen?
§ 23.68How can I trade internationally in roots of American ginseng?
§ 23.69How can I trade internationally in fur skins and fur skin products of bobcat, river otter, Canada lynx, gray wolf, and brown bear harvested in the United States?
§ 23.70How can I trade internationally in American alligator and other crocodilian skins, parts, and products?
§ 23.71How can I trade internationally in sturgeon caviar?
§ 23.72How can I trade internationally in plants?
§ 23.73How can I trade internationally in timber?
§ 23.74How can I trade internationally in personal sport-hunted trophies?
§ 23.75How can I trade internationally in vicuña (<em>Vicugna vicugna</em>)?
§ 23.78What happens to confiscated wildlife and plants?
§ 23.79How may I participate in the Plant Rescue Center Program?
§ 23.84What are the roles of the Secretariat and the committees?
§ 23.85What is a meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP)?
§ 23.86How can I obtain information on a CoP?
§ 23.87How does the United States develop documents and negotiating positions for a CoP?
§ 23.88What are the resolutions and decisions of the CoP?
§ 23.89What are the criteria for listing species in Appendix I or II?
§ 23.90What are the criteria for listing species in Appendix III?
§ 23.91How do I find out if a species is listed?
§ 23.92Are any wildlife or plants, and their parts, products, or derivatives, exempt?