FILING INSTRUCTIONS FOR DECLARATION FOR IMPORTATION OR EXPORTATION OF FISH OR WILDLIFE
(USFWS FORM 3-177)

NOTE: Failure to file a declaration for importation or exportation of fish or wildlife when required by the regulations in 50 CFR 14.61 - 14.64 is a violation of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq)

Regulations concerning the importation and exportation of wildlife may be found in 50 CFR Part 14. Specific regulations concerning the filing of declaration for the importation and exportation of wildlife may be found in 50 CFR 14.61 - 14.64.

Instructions: When using the eDecs system, your electronic declaration qualifies as an original declaration. Paper copies of the declaration are not required to be submitted with the document package for eDecs submissions. File copies may be printed from the eDecs system.

1. Enter date of import or export (as defined by 50 CFR 14.4)

2. Enter Import/Export License Number as in 50 CFR 14.91.

3. Check appropriate box.

4. Use 2-letter code on list. Include a copy of your Non-designated Port Permit, if applicable. If the Port is not listed, use the numeric code for the Region where the port is located.
Agana , GU AG
Alcan , AK AL
Anchorage , AK AN
Atlanta , GA AT
Baltimore , MD BA
Blaine , WA BL
Buffalo/Niagara Falls , NY BN
Boston , MA BO
Brownsville , TX BV
Calais , ME CA
Chicago , IL CH
Cleveland , OH CL
Champlain , NY CP
Calexico , CA CX
Detroit , MI DE
Dallas/Fort Worth , TX DF
Douglas , AZ DG
Derby Line , VT DL
Denver , CO DN
Del Rio , TX DR
Dunseith , ND DS
Washington Dulles , VA DU
Eastport , ID EA
El Paso , TX EL
Fairbanks , AK FB
Grand Portage , MN GP
Honolulu , HI HA
Houston , TX HN
Houlton , ME HO
Highgate Springs , VT HS
International Falls , MN IF
Jackman , ME JK
Juneau , AK JU
Los Angeles , CA LA
Lukeville , AZ LK
Louisville , KY LO
Laredo , TX LR
Las Vegas , NV LV
McAllen , TX MC
Memphis , TN ME
Miami , FL MI
Minneapolis./St. Paul , MN MP
Norfolk , VA NF
Nogales , AZ NG
New Orleans , LA NO
Newark , NJ NW
New York , NY NY
Philadelphia , PA PA
Pembina , ND PB
Port Huron , MI PH
Portal , ND PL
Portland , OR PT
Phoenix , AZ PX
Raymond , MT RY
Seattle , WA SE
San Francisco , CA SF
San Juan , PR SJ
San Luis , AZ SL
Saipan , MP SP
Sault Sainte Marie , MI SS
Sumas , WA SU
Sweetgrass , MT SW
San Diego/San Ysidro , CA SY
Tampa , FL TP
Unknown XX


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4. Use one-letter Purpose Code on list.
Commercial T
Hunting Trophies H
Law Enforcement / Judicial / Forensic use only L
Personal P
Biomedical research M
Scientific S
Zoos Z
Educational E
Circuses/traveling exhibitions Q
Breeding in captivity or artificial propagation B
Reintroduction/introduction into the wild Y
Botanic gardens G


6. Provide the Customs entry number, if applicable.

7. Name of carrier - airline, vessel, rail or truck company, or personally owned vehicle.

8. Provide Master, House Air Waybill number or Bill of Lading, if applicable.

9. Use one-letter Transportation Code on list. For automobiles, list license number and state or province.
Air cargo A
Border crossing on foot B
Mail M
Ocean cargo O
Personal baggage P
Personal vehicle V
Rail R
Truck (commercial) T


10. Provide bonded location where available for inspection.

11. Indicate quantity of cartons in the entire shipment containing wildlife.

12. List any unique markings or codes on cartons containing the wildlife, if applicable.

13. Check appropriate box and provide complete name and address.

14a. Provide complete name and address information.

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14b. Use two letter ISO (International Organization for Standardization) Country Code.
Andorra AD
United Arab Emirates AE
Afghanistan AF
Antigua & Barbuda AG
Anguilla AI
Albania AL
Armenia AM
Netherlands Antilles AN
Curacao AN
Angola AO
Antarctica AQ
Argentina AR
Austria AT
Australia AU
Aruba AW
Aland Islands AX
Azerbaijan AZ
Bosnia-Herzegovina BA
Barbados BB
Bangladesh BD
Belgium BE
Burkina Faso BF
Bulgaria BG
Bahrain BH
Burundi BI
Benin BJ
Bermuda BM
Brunei Darussalam BN
Bolivia BO
Brazil BR
Bahamas BS
Bhutan BT
Bouvet Island BV
Botswana BW
Belarus BY
Belize BZ
Canada CA
Cocos (Keeling) Islands CC
Congo, Democratic Repub CD
Central African Republic CF
Congo CG
Switzerland CH
Cote d’Ivoire CI
Ivory Coast CI
Cook Islands CK
Chile CL
Cameroon CM
China CN
Colombia CO
Costa Rica CR
Cuba CU
Cape Verde CV
Christmas Island CX
Cyprus CY
Czech Republic CZ
Germany DE
Djibouti DJ
Denmark DK
Dominica DM
Dominican Republic DO
Algeria DZ
Ecuador EC
Estonia EE
Egypt EG
Western Sahara EH
Eritrea ER
Spain ES
Canary Islands ES
Ethiopia ET
Finland FI
Fiji FJ
Falkland Islands (Malvinas) FK
Federated States of Micronesia FM
Faeroe Islands FO
France FR
Gabon GA
United Kingdom GB
Ascension Island GB
England GB
Great Britain GB
Ireland, northern GB
Scotland GB
Wales GB
Grenada GD
Georgia GE
French Guiana GF
Ghana GH
Gibraltar GI
Greenland GL
Gambia GM
Guinea GN
Guadeloupe GP
Equatorial Guinea GQ
Greece GR
South Georgia & Sandwich Islands GS
Guatemala GT
Guinea-Bissau GW
Guyana GY
Hong Kong HK
Heard & McDonald Islands HM
Honduras HN
Croatia HR
Haiti HT
Hungary HU
Indonesia ID
Ireland IE
Israel IL
Isle of Man IM
India IN
British Indian Ocean Territory IO
Iraq IQ
Islamic Republic of Iran IR
Iceland IS
Italy IT
Jamaica JM
Jordan JO
Japan JP
Kenya KE
Kyrgyzstan KG
Cambodia KH
Kiribati KI
Comoros KM
Saint Kitts & Nevis KN
Democratic People’s Republic of Korea KP
Republic of Korea KR
Kuwait KW
Cayman Islands KY


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Kazakhstan KZ
Lao People’s Democratic Republic LA
Lebanon LB
Saint Lucia LC
Liechtenstein LI
Sri Lanka LK
Liberia LR
Lesotho LS
Lithuania LT
Luxembourg LU
Latvia LV
Libyan Arab Jamahiriya LY
Morocco MA
Monaco MC
Republic of Moldova MD
Montenegro ME
Madagascar MG
Marshall Islands MH
Macedonia MK
Mali ML
Myanmar (Burma) MM
Mongolia MN
Macau MO
Martinique MQ
Mauritania MR
Montserrat MS
Malta MT
Mauritius MU
Maldives MV
Malawi MW
Mexico MX
Malaysia MY
Mozambique MZ
Namibia NA
New Caledonia NC
Niger NE
Norfolk Island NF
Nigeria NG
Nicaragua NI
Netherlands NL
Norway NO
Nepal NP
Nauru NR
Neutral Zone NT
Niue NU
New Zealand NZ
Oman OM
Panama PA
Peru PE
French Polynesia (Tahiti) PF
Papua New Guinea PG
Philippines PH
Pakistan PK
Poland PL
Saint Pierre & Miquelon PM
Pitcairn PN
Puerto Rico PR
Palestinian Territory, occupied PS
Portugal PT
Palau PW
Paraguay PY
Qatar QA
Reunion RE
Romania RO
Serbia RS
Russian Federation RU
Rwanda RW
Saudi Arabia SA
Solomon Islands SB
Seychelles SC
Sudan SD
Sweden SE
Singapore SG
Saint Helena SH
Slovenia SI
Svalbard & Jan Mayen SJ
Slovakia SK
Sierra Leone SL
San Marino SM
Senegal SN
Somalia SO
Suriname SR
Sao Tome & Principe ST
El Salvador SV
Syrian Arab Republic SY
Swaziland SZ
Turks & Caicos Islands TC
Chad TD
French Southern Territories TF
Togo TG
Thailand TH
Tajikistan TJ
Tokelau TK
Timor-Leste TL
Turkmenistan TM
Tunisia TN
Tonga TO
Turkey TR
Trinidad & Tobago TT
Tuvalu TV
Taiwan (Province of China) TW
United Republic of Tanzania TZ
Ukraine UA
Uganda UG
United States US
Uruguay UY
Uzbekistan UZ
Holy See (Vatican City) VA
Saint Vincent & The Grenadines VC
Venezuela VE
British Virgin Islands VG
Vietnam VN
Various VS
Vanuatu VU
Wallis & Futuna Islands WF
Samoa, Western WS
Unknown XX
Yemen YE
Mayotte YT
South Africa ZA
Zambia ZM
Zimbabwe ZW
High Seas ZZ
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15. Enter name of the appropriate agent, if applicable (including phone number, fax number and printed contact name).

16a. List the scientific name for each species. This is a Latin name including genus and species (and sub-species, when applicable).

16b. Include common name in English.

17a. List shipper's Foreign CITES permit number for each species in 16a, if applicable. List one permit number per block.

17b. List any U.S. CITES permit number, if applicable.

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18a. Use description code from the list below.
Baleen BAL
Bark (raw, dried, powdered, unprocessed) BAR
Bone product or carving BOC
Dead animal (whole animal) BOD
Bone (including jaw, but not skull) BON
Bone piece (not manufactured) BOP
Bulb, corm or tuber BUL
Calipee (turtle cartilage for soup) CAL
Carapace (raw or unworked) CAP
Carving (other than bone, horn or ivory) CAR
Caviar (unfertilized dead processed sturgeon or paddlefish eggs) CAV
Chip timber CHP
Claw (including talon) CLA
Cloth CLO
Coral (raw or unworked, excluding live or coral rock) COR
Coral products CPR
Cultures of an artificially propagated plant CUL
Cutting (plant, including division) CUT
Dead specimen (live specimen that died during shipment) DEA
Derivative (except those included elsewhere) DER
Dried plant DPL
Ear (except when part of whole trophy) EAR
Egg (whole dead or blown excluding caviar) EGG
Egg (live) EGL
Eggshell - (raw or unworked) ESH
Extract EXT
Feather FEA
Fiber (plant fiber, tennis racket string) FIB
Fingerling (juvenile fish of one or two years age for the aquarium trade, hatchery or release operation) FIG
Fin - (fresh, frozen or dried fins or part) FIN
Flower FLO
Foot FOO
Flower pot (made of tree fern or other plant fiber) FPT
Fruit FRU
Gall bladder GAB
Gall GAL
Garment (excluding shoe or trim) GAR
Genitalia (castrate and dried penis) GEN
Graft rootstocks GRS
Hair HAI
Hair product ( including paint brush) HAP
Horn carving (including horn or antler products) HOC
Horn piece (not manufactured) HOP
Horns (substantially whole horns or antlers) HOR
Ivory jewelry IJW
Ivory carvings IVC
Ivory piece (not manufactured, includes scraps) IVP
Jewelry (other than ivory) JWL
Ivory piano key (# of keys) KEY
Frog leg LEG
Live specimen LIV
(all wood in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared, for processing into sawn wood, pulpwood or veneer) LOG
Leather product (large manufactured including briefcase, suitcase, furniture) LPL
Leather product (small manufactured including belt, wallet, watchband) LPS
Leaves LVS
Meat MEA
Medicinal part or product MED
Musk MUS
Nest (including product) NES
Oil OIL
Piano with ivory keys (# of pianos) PIV
Plate of fur skins (include rugs if made from several skins) PLA
Plywood (material consisting of 3 or more sheets of wood glued and pressed one on another and generally disposed so that the grains are at an angle) PLY
Powder POW
Live rock (coral rock) ROC
Root (dead) ROO
Rug (rugs if made from one skin only) RUG
Sawn wood (sawn lengthwise or produced by profile-chipping; normally exceeds 6mm in thickness) SAW
Scale (turtle, other reptile, fish, pangolin) SCA
Seedling SDL
Seed SEE
Shell (mollusc, raw or unworked) SHE
Shoe (including boot) SHO
Side (including flanks, except tinga frame) SID
Skeleton (substantially whole) SKE
Skin (substantially whole, including tinga frame) SKI
Skin piece (raw or tanned including scraps) SKP
Skull SKU
Soup SOU
Specimen (scientific or museum, including blood, tissue, histological preparation) SPE
Shell product (mollusc or turtle) SPR
Stems (plant) STE
Swim bladder (hydrostatic organ, including isinglass, sturgeon glue) SWI
Tail TAI
Teeth (excluding tusk) TEE
Timber (raw except log or sawn wood) TIM
Trim (shoe, garment, or decorative) TRI
Trophy (all the parts of one animal, if they are exported together; e.g. horns, skull, cape, backskin, tail and feet constitute one trophy) TRO
Tusk (substantially whole, worked or not) TUS
Unspecified UNS
Veneer (thin layers of wood of uniform thickness, usually less than 6mm) VEN
Wax (including ambergris) WAX
Wing WNG
Wood product (including furniture, rainsticks) WPR


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18a. Use one-letter code for wildlife source from the list below.
Animals born in captivity (F1 or subsequent generations) that do not fulfill the definition of "bred in captivity" in Resolution Conf. 10.16, as well as parts and derivatives thereof F
Pre-Convention P
Animals bred in captivity, parts and derivatives C
Source unknown (must be justified) U
Appendix-I animals bred in captivity for commercial purposes and Appendix-I plants artificially propagated for commercial purposes, as well as parts and derivatives thereof, exported under the provisions of Article VII, paragraph 4 of the Convention D
Specimens originating from a ranching operation R
Confiscated or seized specimens I
Specimens taken from the wild W
Plants that are artificially propagated, parts and derivatives A


19a. Provide the specific quantity of wildlife, and unit of measure from the list. Multiply pairs by two.
Number of Specimens NO
Meters MT
Milliliters ML
Milligrams MG
Cubic Meters M3
Square Meters M2
Liters LT
Kilograms KG
Grams GM
Centimeters CM
Cubic Centimeters C3
Square Centimeter C2


19b. Indicate total value of items containing wildlife in U.S. dollars (rounded to the nearest dollar).

20. Use two-letter ISO (International Organization for Standardization) Code for country where animal originated.

21. Sign and date the form. Type or print your name below signature. Note: If you are using the eDecs system to submit your Declaration, clicking the submit button and accepting the terms displayed is equivalent to signing the form.

If additional space is needed, please use continuation form (USFWS Form 3-177a). Note: This is not necessary if you are submitting your Declaration through the eDecs system. The form will display as many individual species lines as you need. The on-line printable version of your eDec will separate your entries into the appropriate number of continuation sheets.