CD Transport Reccomendation

I believe it does.  Go to Amazon and search for smsl PL200T.  Scroll down to Product Information, click on Features and & Specs and and you will find it is CD-R/RW Compatible.

PL200T uses a standard CD transport mechanism designed for Red Book CDs.  In most of modern drives, it inherently includes CD-R compatibility feature.

Thanks all for the very helpful replies.  I actually misspoke, I have a higher level SMSL transport that cost just over a grand.  The good news is, the second one that I bought on Ali Express is still on its way and should arrive in about 10 days.  So I won't need to purchase another transport.  Hallelujah!

A second vote for the Rotel RCD 1572MKII.  An excellent CD player in my 2.2 channel system.  

@jaymark I would be curious as to the amount of the custom tax that you will pay if you don't mind me asking?

I bought a McIntosh CD/SACD Transport MCT80, small one (27 cm wide), very good sounding, extremely solid built, but for a lot of money (former times: 4500 Euro, nowadays 6000 Euro). I like ist. But Display is black, althoug its not dead (sometimes it shows function), the bug is into the software. The remote control allows no fast forward. Repair? Not my cup of tea, cause after warranty i have to send it to hamburg, inside a very, very huge and heavy packaging. Its possible to skip via remote control. So I am still lucky with it. By the way: My extremely optimized audio network (Naim Uniti Core with Streaming Bridge Lumin U1 Mini plus Converter Weiss DAC 204, powered by Ferrum Hypsos Hybrid LPS, sounds even better than CD, not with Streaming a la Apple Music or Qobuz. But with the ripped CDs via the Naim Uniti Core.