50 CFR § 23.19 - What CITES documents are required to export Appendix-I plants?

---
identifier: "/us/cfr/t50/s23.19"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "50 CFR § 23.19 - What CITES documents are required to export Appendix-I plants?"
title_number: 50
title_name: "Wildlife and Fisheries"
section_number: "23.19"
section_name: "What CITES documents are required to export Appendix-I plants?"
chapter_name: "UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR"
subchapter_number: "B"
subchapter_name: "TAKING, POSSESSION, TRANSPORTATION, SALE, PURCHASE, BARTER, EXPORTATION, AND IMPORTATION OF WILDLIFE AND PLANTS"
part_number: "23"
part_name: "CONVENTION ON INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN ENDANGERED SPECIES OF WILD FAUNA AND FLORA (CITES)"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (March 3, 1973), 27 U.S.T. 1087; and Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended, 16 U.S.C. 1531"
regulatory_source: "72 FR 48448, Aug. 23, 2007, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "23"
---


# 23.19 What CITES documents are required to export Appendix-I plants?

Answer the questions in the following decision tree to find the section in this part that applies to the type of CITES document you need to export Appendix-I plants. See § 23.20(d) for CITES exemption documents or § 23.92 for specimens that are exempt from the requirements of CITES and do not need CITES documents.

[72 FR 48448, Aug. 23, 2007, as amended at 79 FR 30420, May 27, 2014]