Appendix I: Timber species that are threatened with extinction. Trade is permitted, but under very restricted circumstances
Abies guatemalensis
Listing Applies To:
All parts and derivatives, including manufactured and finished products2 from any country of origin.
Natural Distribution:
Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and El Salvador
Common and Trade Names:
Guatemalan fir, abeto mexicano, guayami, Mexican fir, pinabete, plumajatzin, plumajillo de montaña, sapin de Guatemala
Common Uses (selected):
Construction.
Araucaria araucana
Listing Applies To:
All parts and derivatives, including manufactured and finished products3, from any country of origin. Logging ban in Chile since 1976.
Natural Distribution:
Argentina, Chile
Common and Trade Names:
Monkey puzzle tree, apeboom, araucaria du Chile, Chilean pine, chilensk tall, Chili pine, Chili tall, Chilie pine, parana pine, pehuen, pilon, pin du Chili, pino, pino araucaria, pino de Chile, pino de Neuquén, pino de Paraná, piñonero, piñón, sapin du Chili, pehúen
Common Uses (selected):
Construction, pallets, engineered wood, flooring, doors and windows.
Dalbergia nigra
Listing Applies To:
All parts and derivatives, including manufactured and finished products,4 from any country of origin.
Natural Distribution:
Brazil
Common and Trade Names:
Brazilian rosewood, babia rosewood, bahia rosewood, caa-biuna, cabeuna, cabiuna, cabiuna do mato, cabiuna rajada, comore, camboriuna, caviuna, jacaranda, jacarada cabiuna, jacaranda de Brasil, jacaranda wood, jacaranda-da-bahia, jacaranda-preto, jacaranda-rajado, jacaranda-roxo, jacarandaholz, jacaradanda de Brasil, legno di jacaranda, madeira de palisandro, marnut, palisander, Rio rosewood.
Common Uses (selected):
Furniture, veneers, cabinetmaking, musical instruments, flooring, carving and sculpture.
Fitzroya cupressoides
Listing Applies To:
All parts and derivatives, including manufactured and finished products.5 Logging ban in Chile since 1976.
Natural Distribution:
Argentina, Chile
Common and Trade Names:
Alerce, Chilean false larch, alerzcholz, fitzroy cypress, lahuan, patagonian cypress
Common Uses (selected):
High end furniture, musical instruments, windows, doors, shutters, beamed ceilings, moldings, decorative veneers, interior and exterior coating, boat building, poles, roofing shingles.
Podocarpus parlatorei
Listing Applies To:
All parts and derivatives, including manufactured and finished products7 from any country of origin.
Natural Distribution:
Argentina, Bolivia, Peru
Common and Trade Names:
Parlatore’s podocarp, Monteromero, pino blanco, pino del cerro, pino montano
Common Uses (selected):
Pencils
Pilgerodendron uviferum
Listing Applies To:
All parts and derivatives, including manufactured and finished products5 from any country of origin.
Natural Distribution:
Argentina, Chile
Common and Trade Names:
Pilgerodendron, Chilean cedar, ciprés, ciprés de Chile, ciprés de Cordillera,ciprés de las Islas Len, cipresso del Cile, cyprès du Chili, lahuan, lanutanbagio, libocedri dell’america meridion, patagonian cypress, patagonian pilgerodendron, ten, thuja tetragona
Common Uses (selected):
Building, flooring, doors, furniture.
Balmea stormiae
Listing Applies To:
All parts and derivatives.
Natural Distribution:
Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras
Common and Trade Names:
Ayuque
Common Uses (selected):
Christmas trees.
Appendix II: trade of these species is controlled and regulated to ensure their survival
Aniba rosaeodora
Listing Applies To:
Logs, lumber, plywood and veneer, from any country of origin.
Natural Distribution:
Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, French Guiana, Peru, Surinam and Venezuela
Common and Trade Names:
Brazilian rosewood
Common Uses (selected):
Furniture, turnery, shipbuilding, flooring, agricultural tools
Bulnesia sarmientoi
Listing Applies To:
Logs, lumber, plywood, and veneer from any country of origin.
Natural Distribution:
Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay
Common and Trade Names:
Gaiacwood, bois de gaic, gaiacwood, guajakhoz, guajaco, guajakholz, guayacan, palo balsamo, palo santo, Paraguay-lignum-vitae, true guaiac.
Common Uses (selected):
Housing construction (beams, poles), turning, carving, poles and pillars, poles, flooring.
Caesalpinia echinata
Listing Applies To:
Logs, lumber, veneer, and unfinished wood articles from any country of origin.
Natural Distribution:
Brazil
Common and Trade Names:
Pernambuco, brasileto, Brazilwood, ibirapitanga, orabutã, pau-Brasil, pau-de-pernambuco, pau-pernambuco, pau-rosado, peachwood, pernambuco-wood
Common Uses (selected):
Musical instruments, ornamental turnery, rifle stocks, exterior joinery, wall paneling, wharf building, piling, docks, flooring, veneers, inlays in reproduction of antique furniture.
Caryocar costaricense
Listing Applies To:
All parts and derivatives, including manufactured and finished products8 from any country of origin.
Natural Distribution:
Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela
Common and Trade Names:
Ajo, ajillo, aji, almendrillo, almendro, almendron, cagui, firme, genenè, manu, maqui-maqui cagui, pequia, pequia brava, pete rana do terra firme, petè, pete-rana, plomillo, rana do terra, swari
Common Uses (selected):
Bridges, rail tracks.
Gonystylus spp
Listing Applies To:
All Gonystylus species, and to all parts and derivatives, including manufactured and finished products9 from any country of origin.
Natural Distribution:
Brunei, Darussalam, Fiji, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, the Philippines
Common and Trade Names:
Ramin, ampudji, gaharu, gaheu, gara buaja, kaya garu, lanutanbagio,medang keran, melawis, ramin telur, sang su, seriangun
Common Uses (selected):
Furniture, carving, flooring, picture framing, turnery for handles of non-striking toys, dowels, wooden toys, light building work for skirting, domestic flooring, plywood, decorative veneers, moldings, interior joinery.
Guaiacum spp.
Listing Applies To:
All Guaiacum species, and to all parts and derivatives from any country of origin except finished products packaged and ready for retail trade.10
Natural Distribution:
Anguilla, Antigua, Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, Venezuela
Common and Trade Names:
Lignum vitae, auayacan, palo santo
Common Uses (selected):
Marine equipment such as bushing blocks and bearings for ship’s propellers shafts, pulley sheaves and dead-eyes and replacement for metal thrust bearings in steel and tube works, sculpture and carving.
Oreomunnea pterocarpa
Listing Applies To:
All parts and derivatives, including manufactured and finished products11 from any country of origin.
Natural Distribution:
Costa Rica, possibly other Mesoamerican countries
Common and Trade Names:
Gavilan, campana, engelhardia pterocarpa, gavilán blanco
Common Uses (selected):
Construction, used in the past for cabinetmaking.
Pericopsis elata
Listing Applies To:
Logs, lumber and veneer.
Natural Distribution:
Cameroon, Congo, Côte d'Ivoire, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Nigeria
Common and Trade Names:
Afrormosia, African teak, anyeran, asamela, assamela, assemela, awawai, ayin, baracara, benin satinwood, bohala, bohalala, bonsamdua, devils tree, egbi, ejen, golden, kokriki, afrormosia, iatobahy do igapo, kokrodua, liguminosae, mekoe, mohole. obang, ole, olel pardo, peonio, redbark, satinwood, tento, wahala, yellow satinwood
Common Uses (selected):
Interior and exterior buildings, shipbuilding, flooring, stairs, high-class joinery, veneers for furniture, cabinetmaking, flush doors and wall paneling, marine piling, office fittings.
Platymiscium pleiostachyum
Listing Applies To:
All parts and derivatives including manufactured and finished products.12
Natural Distribution:
Costa Rica, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua
Common and Trade Names:
Cristobal, granadillo, cachimbo, cristóbal, ñambar, roble Colorado
Common Uses (selected):
Paneling, flooring, furniture and musical instruments (drums).
Prunus africana
Listing Applies To:
All parts and derivatives, except finished products packaged and ready for retail and trade.
Natural Distribution:
Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Swaziland, Uganda, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe
Common and Trade Names:
African cherry, Blackwood, Kanda stick, Pygeum, Red Stinkwood, Red ivory, Cerisier Africain, Prunier d’Afrique, Pygeum, Ciruelo africano
Common Uses (selected):
Furniture, tools, construction. Tree is also used for medicinal and ornamental purposes.
Swietenia humilis
Listing Applies To:
All parts and derivatives, including manufactured and finished products6 from any country of origin.
Natural Distribution:
Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama
Common and Trade Names:
Pacific Coast mahogany, caoba, mabu, Pacific mahogany
Common Uses (selected):
Carpentry in general; moldings.
Swietenia macrophylla
Listing Applies To:
Logs, lumber, plywood and veneer that originate in Latin America and the Caribbean a exception of Brazil or Nicaragua. There is, however, an export ban in Brazil and Nicaragua.
Natural Distribution:
Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, French Guyana, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Venezuela
Common and Trade Names:
Bigleaf mahogany, acajou, acajou Amerique, acajou d’Amerique, acajou du Honduras, Adoa, aguano, American mahogany, Americkaans mahonie, Amerikanns mahonie, ara putange, araputanga, bastard lime, bay-mahogany, baywood, belize mahogany, caòba, Honduras mahogany, mara, mogno
Common Uses (selected):
High-end furniture and cabinetmaking, interior joinery, paneling, boat interiors, pianos, burial caskets, carving, moulds and dies, veneers used for plywood manufactured, decorative uses.
Swietenia mahagoni
Listing Applies To:
Logs, lumber and veneer from any country of origin.
Natural Distribution:
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Venezuela
Common and Trade Names:
Caribbean mahogany, acajou, acajou de Cuba, acajou de Saint Domingue, acajou de St. Domingue, acajou des Antilles, aguano, antillen mahogani, bay, mahogany, caoba, caoba de santo domingo, caoba dominicana, caobilla, chiculte, cobano, Cuban mahogany, curlet mahogany, Dominican mahogany, echites mahagoni, gateado, Jamaica mahogany, Kuba mahogany, madiera, mahagoni, mahog, mahogany, mahogany du pays, mahogany petites feuilles, mahok, mahoni, mongo, orura, small-leaf mahogany, West Indian mahogany, West Indies mahogany
Common Uses (selected):
High-end furniture and cabinetmaking, interior joinery, paneling, boat interiors, pianos, burial caskets, carving, molding, veneers used for plywood, decorative uses.
Swietenia humilis
Listing Applies To:
All parts and derivatives, including manufactured and finished products6 from any country of origin.
Natural Distribution:
Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama
Common and Trade Names:
Pacific Coast mahogany, caoba, mabu, Pacific mahogany
Common Uses (selected):
Carpentry in general; moldings.
Swietenia macrophylla
Listing Applies To:
Logs, lumber, plywood and veneer that originate in Latin America and the Caribbean with the exception of Brazil and Nicaragua. There is, however, an export ban in Brazil and Nicaragua.
Natural Distribution:
Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guyana, French Guyana, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Venezuela
Common and Trade Names:
Bigleaf mahogany, acajou, acajou Amerique, acajou d’Amerique, acajou du Honduras, Adoa, aguano, American mahogany, Americkaans mahonie, Amerikanns mahonie, ara putange, araputanga, bastard lime, bay-mahogany, baywood, belize mahogany, caòba, Honduras mahogany, mara, mogno
Common Uses (selected):
High-end furniture and cabinetmaking, interior joinery, paneling, boat interiors, pianos, burial caskets, carving, moulds and dies, veneers used for plywood manufactured, decorative uses.
Swietenia mahagoni
Listing Applies To:
Logs, lumber and veneer from any country of origin.
Natural Distribution:
Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Peru, Trinidad and Tobago, United States, Venezuela
Common and Trade Names:
Caribbean mahogany, acajou, acajou de Cuba, acajou de Saint Domingue, acajou de St. Domingue, acajou des Antilles, aguano, antillen mahogani, bay, mahogany, caoba, caoba de santo domingo, caoba dominicana, caobilla, chiculte, cobano, Cuban mahogany, curlet mahogany, Dominican mahogany, echites mahagoni, gateado, Jamaica mahogany, Kuba mahogany, madiera, mahagoni, mahog, mahogany, mahogany du pays, mahogany petites feuilles, mahok, mahoni, mongo, orura, smallleaf mahogany, West Indian mahogany, West Indies mahogany
Common Uses (selected):
High-end furniture and cabinetmaking, interior joinery, paneling, boat interiors, pianos, burial caskets, carving, molding, veneers used for plywood, decorative uses.High-end furniture and cabinetmaking, interior joinery, paneling, boat interiors, pianos, burial caskets, carving, molding, veneers used for plywood, decorative uses.
Appendix III: species subject to special management within a country
Cedrela fissilis
Listing Applies To:
Logs, lumber and veneer from any country of origin.
Natural Distribution:
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela
Common and Trade Names:
Argentinean cedar, Central American cedar, cedro, cigar boxes cedar, rose cedar
Common Uses (selected):
Furniture, cabinets and paneling, high-class joinery, flooring, house construction, boat building, skins of racing boats, canoe decks, cigar boxes, sound boards for organs, clothing chests, and decorative veneers for paneling, plywood, and panel corestock.
Cedrela lilloi
Listing Applies To:
Logs, lumber and veneer from any country of origin.
Natural Distribution:
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Peru
Common and Trade Names:
Cedro, atoc, cedro bayo, cedro coya, cedro de altura, cedro de Tucumán, cedro del cerro, cedro peludo, cedro salteno, cedro vírgen
Common Uses (selected):
Musical instruments. High-grade timber.
Cedrela odorata
Listing Applies To:
Logs, lumber and veneer from any country of origin.
Natural Distribution:
Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, French Guyana, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Surinam, Venezuela
Common and Trade Names:
Spanish cedar, acajou rouge, akuyari, atoreb, Barbados cedar, Brazilian cedar, British Guiana cedar, British Honduras cedar, cedar, cèdra acajou, cèdre des barbaies, cèdre rouge, cedrela, cedrela wood, cedro, cedro chino, cedro colorado, cedro hembra, cedro macho, cedro obsuro, cedro real, cedro red, cedro rojo, Central American cedar, chujte, cigar-box cedar, cigarbox cedar, Colorado cedro, Cuban cedar, epi, Hondouras cedar, icte, Jamaican cedar, Kalantas, Kapere, Koperi, Kurama, Kurana, Mexican cedar, Nicaraguan cedar, parank, paranka, red cedar, rojas cedar, rosas cedar, South American cedar, Tabasco cedar, tiocuahuitl, Trinidad cedar, Wesindische zedar, West Indian cedar
Common Uses (selected):
Ship building, construction, cigar boxes.
Dalbergia retusa
Listing Applies To:
Logs, lumber and veneer that originate from Guatemala, including articles that were re-exported from another country.
Natural Distribution:
Pacific seaboard from Mexico to Panama
Common and Trade Names:
Nicaraguan rosewood, cocobolo, cocobolo prieto, funera, granadillo, nambar, palo negro
Common Uses (selected):
Turnery, traditional use for cutlery handlers, knives and tool handles, brush backs, truncheons, bowling bowls, sculpture and carving and decorative uses such as inlay boxes and wooden jewelry, highly decorative veneers for inlay work, for decoration of furniture and paneling.
Dalbergia stevensonii
Listing Applies To:
Logs, lumber and veneer that originate from Guatemala, including articles that were re-exported from another country.
Natural Distribution:
Southern Belize and neighboring areas in Guatemala and Mexico
Common and Trade Names:
Honduran rosewood, hagaedwood
Common Uses (selected):
Musical instruments, moldings, picture frames, decorative veneers, furniture, cabinetmaking, office fittings, paneling, doors, decorative veneer faces, turnery.
Dipteryx panamensis
Listing Applies To:
All parts and derivatives, including manufactured and finished products13 from any country of origin.
Natural Distribution:
Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama and Colombia
Common and Trade Names:
Almendro, almendra, almendro de montaña, amans, choiba, eboe, îbu, iqua, Indian almond, sarrapia, tonca, tonka bean, yapo
Common Uses (selected):
Bridges, railroad tracks, hardwood flooring and marine construction.
Pinus koraiensis
Listing Applies To:
Logs, lumber, and veneer from any country of origin.
Natural Distribution:
China, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Japan, Republic of Korea, Russian Federation
Common and Trade Names:
Korean pine, borovica kórejská, borovice korejskã, channamu, hong song, Korea-Kiefer, Koreai fenyõ, pin de Corée
Common Uses (selected):
Carving, patternmaking, paneling, construction, doors, high-class joinery, furniture, decorative veneers.
Podocarpus neriifolius
Listing Applies To:
All parts and derivatives, including manufactured and finished products.
Natural Distribution:
China, Nepal
Common and Trade Names:
Black pine podocarp, amanu, black pine, brown pine, bukiti, jati bukit
Common Uses (selected):
General construction work, for car parts, panels, furniture and interior design.
Tetracentron sinense
Listing Applies To:
All parts and derivatives, including manufactured and finished products from any country of origin.
Natural Distribution:
Bhutan, China, Indian, Myanmar, Nepal
Common and Trade Names:
Tetracentron, shui quing shu
Common Uses (selected):
Unknown
Dalbergia darienensis
Listing Applies To:
Applies to products that originate from Panama, including articles that were re-exported from another country. Applies to all parts and derivatives, except finished products ready for retail trade.
Natural Distribution:
Colombia, Panama
Common and Trade Names:
Indian rosewood.
Common Uses (selected):
Cabinet making, furniture, marquetry, parquet flooring, musical instruments.
Dalbergia monticola
Listing Applies To:
Logs, lumber and veneer.
Natural Distribution:
Madagascar
Common and Trade Names:
Madagascar rosewood, voamboana, palissandre brun, palissandre de Madagascar.
Common Uses (selected):
Cabinet making, furniture, marquetry, parquet flooring, musical instruments.
Dalbergia louvelii
Listing Applies To:
Logs, lumber, veneer. Applies to articles originating in any country.
Natural Distribution:
Madagascar
Common and Trade Names:
Madagascar rosewood, palisander, andramena, hendramena, madagaskisk violpalisander, volombodipona, volombodipona a grandes feuilles, volombodipona vavy.
Common Uses (selected):
Cabinet making, furniture, marquetry, parquet flooring, musical instruments.
Dalbergia normandii
Listing Applies To:
Logs, lumber, veneer.
Natural Distribution:
Madagascar
Common and Trade Names:
Madagascar rosewood
Common Uses (selected):
Cabinet making, furniture, marquetry, parquet flooring, musical instruments.
Dalbergia purpurascens
Listing Applies To:
Logs, lumber, veneer.
Natural Distribution:
Madagascar
Common and Trade Names:
Madagascar rosewood, hazovola, manary, manary bombay, manary fotsy, manary mainty,manry toloho, manary tsaitondro.
Common Uses (selected):
Cabinet making, furniture, marquetry, parquet flooring, musical instruments.
Dalbergia xerophila
Listing Applies To:
Logs, lumber, veneer.
Natural Distribution:
Madagascar
Common and Trade Names:
English rosewood, cocobolo.
Common Uses (selected):
Cabinet making, furniture, marquetry, parquet flooring, musical instruments.
Diospyros spp.
Listing Applies To:
All species of Diospyros. Logs, sawn wood and veneer sheets from any country.
Natural Distribution:
Madagascar
Common and Trade Names:
Madagascar ebony, ebony.
Common Uses (selected):
Musical instruments, sculptures.
2 Including building materials, cabinetmaking materials, charcoal, firewood, flooring, containers, fuel wood, furniture, joinery, matches, particleboard, plywood, pulp/paper products, roof shingles and veneer among other products.
3 Including construction material, flooring, furniture, joinery, plywood, pulp/paper products and railroad trails among other products.
4 Including bedroom furniture, billiard-cue butts, boat building, bobbins, boxes and crates, brush backs and handles, cabinetmaking materials, chairs, chests, decorative plywood, musical instruments, parts of musical instruments and veneer among other products.
5 Including agricultural implements, boat building materials, boxes, crates, containers, cabinetmaking materials, carvings, cigar boxes, construction materials, cooperages, flooring, fuel wood, furniture and furniture components, joinery, musical instruments, particleboard, pencils, piling, plywood, poles, pulp/paper products, shakes, shingles, sporting goods and toys among other products.
6 Including flooring, furniture, posts and timber.
7 Including timber.
8 Including railroad ties.
9 Including brush backs, building materials, ceilings, counter tops, door frames, dowels, flooring, furniture, joinery, moldings, handles (e.g. brooms and umbrellas), paneling, picture frames, plywood, pool cues and racks, rulers, shoji screens, stair treads, stringers, tool handles, toys, trays, tripods, turnery, blinds, window frames among other products.
10 Including: bearings and bushings, boat building materials, brush backs and handles, bush blocks, furniture, golf club heads, marine construction materials, railroad ties, shade rollers, tables, turnery, and wheels among other products.
11 Including a variety of products.
12 Including furniture, musical instruments, timber and veneer.
13 Including bearings and bushings, barge and dock fenders, boat construction articles, chemical derivatives, cogs and shafts, cross ties, fishing rods, flooring, furniture, heavy construction, railroad ties, tool handles, turnery and veneer among other products.
Notes: Other tree species also listed in CITES include: Aquilaria malaccensis (II), Magnolia liliifera var. obovata (III), Podophyllum hexandrum (II), Pterocarpus santalinus (II), Taxus chinensis, T. cuspidate, T. fauna, T. sumatrana, T. wallichiana (all Taxus sp. listed in Appendix II). Trade of these species, however, is mostly for non-timber products and uses. Logs are defined as all wood in the rough whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared for processing. Lumber is defined as wood sawn lengthwise or produced by a profile-chipping process; normally exceeds 6mm in thickness. Plywood is defined as three or more sheets of wood glued and pressed one on the other and generally disposed so that the grains of successive layers are at an angle. Veneer is defined as thin layers or sheets of wood of uniform thickness, usually peeled or sliced for use in plywood and furniture among other products.
Sources: CITES website; UNEP/WCMC Trees conservation information service website; Canadian organization for tropical education and rainforest conservation, 2010; Chilebosque.com; CITES 2003; Chen, 2006; Teck, 2006; UNEP/WCMC, 2000; USFWS CITES tree species website; DEFRA, 2010; APHIS, 2010; GRIN website.