The future of travelling with your bass

[BassApprentice]

I'm not posting this as a political jibe - just trying to provide those of us it might affect some further info. 

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1185443850329960448.html

[Bassfinger]

Its guff.  I've imported enough guitars from outside the EU and into it with zero consequence.

[chris_b]

Maybe guff, but maybe not. . . . . . I remember the days when you needed a carnet when you travelled abroad with your gear. And the joy on some customs men's faces when you drove up to their post at Dover. They could wave you through, or just as easily make you unload the whole van onto the road and justify every piece of gear against the documentation.

The one thing that is certainly not guff. . . . we may or may not be going back to the bad old days, but gigging in Europe will be a much more difficult process that it has been.

[Lozz196]

It’s pretty easy, use maple fretboards on guitars for use in Europe.

[BigRedX]

3 hours ago, Lozz196 said:

It’s pretty easy, use maple fretboards on guitars for use in Europe.

Until maple gets added to the CITES list.

[pmjos]

I took a Steinberger in a hardcore overseas..... I got stopped in the airport by armed police because they thought it was a gun...

[pineweasel]

There’s a CITES exemption on the way for rosewood in musical instruments, thankfully. 
However the requirement for carnets for goods taken to Europe is a real possibility, depending on what agreements we end up with. 
 

 

[BigRedX]

18 hours ago, pineweasel said:

There’s a CITES exemption on the way for rosewood in musical instruments, thankfully

Not active until sometime in November IIRC. until then you will still need the relevant paperwork for travelling with it importing/exporting instruments with any kind of Rosewood in them. 

[Lfalex v1.1]

21 hours ago, BigRedX said:

Until maple gets added to the CITES list.

And then there's Phenolic boards instead!