[AgentKooper]

Fresh off the press from the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

It's never been clear to me exactly what the requirements are for a personal player traveling internationally with a rosewood guitar. But that's going to be me this summer, so I decided it couldn't hurt.

The application was kind of a pain, because it asked for a lot of original manufacturer and import information. Blueridge never responded to my request for that info, but a Fish and Wildlife rep was super helpful. Took about 6 weeks for the permit to be approved and sent to me.

The permit doesn't seem at all practical for traveling musicians, as the paperwork came with a list of only 12 ports of entry into the United States that you're limited to when traveling under the permit.

I won't be traveling through any of those ports, but I'm just going to hope for the best.

Anyway, there's been a lot of discussion of CITES here, so I thought this might be of some interest.