50 CFR § 23.1 - 23.92 - Taking, Possession, transportation, Sale, Purchase, Barter, Exportation, and Importation of Wildlife and Plants - Convention on International Trade in Endangered species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).

This Part of Title 50 lays down regulations for the implementation of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), in order to regulate international trade in wildlife and plants, including parts, products, and derivatives, and to prevent illegal trafficking for the survival of species in the wild. Parties to CITES regulate the import, introduction from the sea, export, or re-export across jurisdictional or international boundaries for any purpose whether commercial or noncommercial, in specimens of Appendix-I, -II, and -III species and their parts, products, and derivatives through a system of permits and certificates (CITES documents).
This Part sets out provisions on prohibitions, exemptions, and requirements relating to the import, introduction from the sea, export, or re-export of any specimen of a species listed in Appendix I, II, or III of CITES; types of standard CITES documents that must accompany an Appendix-I, -II, or -III specimen in international trade; application procedures, criteria, and conditions for the U.S. CITES documents; legal acquisition findings by the CITES Management Authority before issuing export permits and re-export certificates as well as before issuing certain CITES exemption documents; non-detriment findings based on the best available biological information; criteria for a specimen to qualify as bred in captivity and for a plant specimen to qualify as artificially propagated; international trade in certain specimens, such as American ginseng, timber and fur skins and fur skin products of bobcat, river otter, Canada lynx, gray wolf, and brown bear harvested in the United States; confiscation or return to the country of export of specimens that are traded in violation of CITES or disposal of forfeited and abandoned live and dead wildlife and plants; CITES Administration; criteria for listing species in Appendix I, II, or III of CITES ans U.S. procedures for listing species native to the United States in Appendix III; and exemptions from the requirements of CITES.