A bill to implement the UNESCO convention on the means of prohibiting and preventing the illicit import, export, and transfer of ownership of cultural property.

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] Provides for the implementation of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export, and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property. Provides that whenever the President determines that (1) the cultural patrimony of a State Party to the Convention is in jeopardy from pillage of archeological or ethnological materials; (2) the State Party has taken measures for the protection of its cultural patrimony; and (3) import controls by the United States would help deter such pillage, the President may enter into an agreement with the State Party, and with other governments as appropriate, to restrict the importation of protected objects of archeological or ethnological interest. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, after consultation with the Secretary of State, to promulgate, and when appropriate shall revise, a list of protected objects of archeological or ethnological interests within the meaning. Requires the consignees of any protected object of archeological or ethnological interest to present appropriate certificates and evidence to customs officers at the time of making entry of …