taabru45
Enlightened Member
Has anyone bought or sold a guitar cross border Canada/USA since the new cities regulations came in? It seems pretty draconian.
ask me how i feel over here...I feel I like a kid with his hands on the candy store window...but it's closed. Not fun to see some great deals and....not even be able to consider it......
Because it's a trade agreement to facilitate movement of products between a specific group of countries by reducing customs restrictions.Whatever happened to NAFTA? Why does it not apply to this situation?
I get the fact that there are some shady dealers in tonewoods, and that forests are being harvested at unsustainable rates. But why not concentrate on the front end of the process (the forests), and not the back end (used guitar shipping)?
The problem was that choking off supply of one type just created more demand on others.I think the overall intent is simply to discourage the use (and thus reduce the illegal harvesting) of rosewood. Guitars are kind of an accidental victim of this, but the rosewood situation is bad enough that subtlety in the rules is gone.
I doubt that'll happen in our lifetimes.On the other side of the coin, maple is plentiful. Lotsa stuff made from rosewood can instead be made from roasted maple. And there are other rosewood-like woods that can sub for it in many if not most applications. If we're smart enough about doing this the current rules could ease up sooner rather than later.
I get the analogy but it was based on different "rules" that could be much more easily lifted or imposed., in an environment where the harvesting itself was more easily regulated.Take cod fish: near bans on cod fishing in the '80s and '90s that were seen as draconian at the time have paid off, in some regions at least, in recovered fish stocks and smarter harvesting.