Plants and plant products

Product Coverage

Product description Ex HS Code HS Nomenclature
All plants and plant products listed in Appendix I of CITES are subject to licensing. The plants and plant products listed in Appendices II and III are subject to licensing only if they have been taken from the wild. Artificially propagated material is excluded therefrom. The list of products coming under the conservation of species appears in the Ordinance of the Federal Department of the Interior (DFI) on control of the circulation of protected species of fauna and flora (Ordinance on CITES controls) of 4 September 2013 (RS 453.1, https://www.admin.ch/opc/fr/classified compilation/20121349/index.html).