---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 C.F.R. § 23.19"
title: "50"
number: "23.19"
heading: "What CITES documents are required to export Appendix-I plants?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/50/23.19"
---

# §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)](/cfr/50/23.20.md?p=d) for CITES exemption documents or [§ 23.92](/cfr/50/23.92.md) for specimens that are exempt from the requirements of CITES and do not need CITES documents.


## Notes

### Amendments

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

### Authority

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 et seq.

### Source

Source: 72 FR 48448, Aug. 23, 2007, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

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