Obama Signs Legislation to Disrupt Antique Trafficking
President Barack Obama on May 9 signed the "Protect and Preserve International Cultural Property Act," which establishes an interagency coordinating committee to prevent illegal looting and trafficking of cultural property and aims to facilitate the lawful trade of such goods,…
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among other things. The House of Representatives on April 26 passed the conference version of the bill and sent it to Obama's desk (see 1605090026). Under the new law (here), the White House now has 90 days to restrict imports of any “archaeological or ethnological” materials from Syria.