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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 230 / Friday, December 3, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
AGENCY:

promulgation of the existing import restrictions. Accordingly, the current import restrictions and new import restrictions will be effective until November 30, 2026, and the CBP
regulations are being amended to reflect this extension and imposition. To fulfill the terms of the new MOU, the Designated List of cultural property, which was described in CBP Dec. 16
23, is amended in this document to reflect the addition and revision of categories of archaeological material of Egypt ranging in date from approximately 300,000 B.C. to A.D.
1750, and to include certain ethnological material ranging from A.D.
1517 to 1914.
DATES: Effective on December 1, 2021.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For legal aspects, W. Richmond Beevers, Chief, Cargo Security, Carriers and Restricted Merchandise Branch, Regulations and Rulings, Office of Trade, 202 3250084, ototrrculturalproperty@cbp.dhs.gov. For operational aspects, Julie L. Stoeber, Chief, 1USG Branch, Trade Policy and Programs, Office of Trade, 202 945
7064, 1USGBranch@cbp.dhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

This final rule amends the U.S. Customs and Border Protection CBP regulations to reflect an extension and amendment of import restrictions on certain archaeological material and the imposition of import restrictions on ethnological material of the Arab Republic of Egypt Egypt. The restrictions on archaeological material, which were originally imposed by CBP
Dec. 1623, were extended and amended on November 30, 2021. The Acting Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs, United States Department of State, has made the requisite determinations for extending and updating the import restrictions that previously existed, and the Governments of the United States and Egypt entered into a new agreement to reflect the extension of these import restrictions. Additionally, the Acting Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs, United States Department of State, has made the requisite determinations for adding import restrictions on certain categories of ethnological material. The new agreement, which entered into force on November 30, 2021, supersedes the existing Memorandum of Understanding MOU that became effective on November 30, 2016, and enabled the
Background Pursuant to the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act, Public Law 97446, 19 U.S.C. 2601 et seq. hereinafter, the Cultural Property Implementation Act, which implements the 1970 United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property hereinafter, the Convention 823
U.N.T.S. 231 1972, the United States entered into a bilateral agreement with the Arab Republic of Egypt Egypt on November 30, 2016. The Memorandum of Understanding MOU enabled the promulgation of import restrictions on certain archaeological material representing Egypts cultural heritage ranging from approximately 300,000
B.C. to A.D. 1750.
On December 6, 2016, U.S. Customs and Border Protection CBP published CBP Dec. 1623 in the Federal Register 81 FR 87805, which amended 12.104ga of title 19 of the Code of Federal Regulations 19 CFR 12.104ga to reflect the imposition of import restrictions and included a list designating the types of archaeological material covered by the restrictions.
Import restrictions listed at 19 CFR
12.104ga are effective for no more than five years beginning on the date on

Robert F. Altneu, Director, Regulations & Disclosure Law Division, Regulations & Rulings, Office of Trade U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Approved: November 30, 2021.
Timothy E. Skud, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury.
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Extension and Amendment of Import Restrictions on Archaeological Material and Imposition of Import Restrictions on Ethnological Material of Egypt U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security; Department of the Treasury.
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which the agreement enters into force with respect to the United States. This period may be extended for additional periods of not more than five years if it is determined that the factors which justified the initial agreement still pertain and no cause for suspension of the agreement exists. See 19 CFR
12.104ga.
On February 5, 2021, the United States Department of State proposed in the Federal Register 86 FR 8476, to extend and amend the MOU between the United States and Egypt concerning the import restrictions on certain categories of archeological material of Egypt. On August 15, 2021, after consultation with and recommendations by the Cultural Property Advisory Committee, the Acting Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs, United States Department of State, determined that: 1 Egypts cultural heritage continues to be in jeopardy from pillage of archeological resources and that the import restrictions should be updated and extended for an additional five years;
and 2 Egypts cultural heritage is in jeopardy from pillage of certain types of ethnological material, from Egypt, ranging in date from A.D. 1517 to A.D.
1914, and import restrictions on such types of ethnological material should be imposed.
Subsequently, on November 30, 2021, the Governments of the United States and Egypt entered into a new agreement, titled Memorandum of Understanding Between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt Concerning the Imposition of Import Restrictions on Categories of Cultural Property of Egypt. The new MOU supersedes the existing agreement that first entered into force on November 30, 2016. Pursuant to the new MOU, the import restrictions for archaeological material are updated and will be effective until November 30, 2026, along with the imposition of additional import restrictions on certain categories of ethnological material, which will also be effective until November 30, 2026.
Accordingly, CBP is amending 19 CFR
12.104ga to reflect the extension of the import restrictions and amending the Designated List of cultural property described in CBP Dec. 1623 with the addition and revision of categories of archaeological material of Egypt ranging in date from approximately 300,000 B.C.
to A.D. 1750, as set forth below. The Designated List of cultural property described in CBP Dec. 1623 is also amended by adding certain categories of ethnological material of Egypt ranging
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