PUBLIC LAW 97-446—JAN. 12, 1983
96 STAT. 2353
nied by a written statement of the facts known to the State Party that relate to those matters with respect to which determinations must be made under subparagraphs (A) through (D) of paragraph (1). (4) IMPLEMENTATION.—In implementing this subsection, the President should endeavor to obtain the commitment of the State Party concerned to permit the exhange of its archaeological and ethnological materials under circumstances in which such exchange does not jeopardize its cultural patrimony. (b) EFFECTIVE PERIOD.—The President may not enter into any agreement under subsection (a) which has an effective period beyond the close of the five-year period beginning on the date on which such agreement enters into force with respect to the United States. (c) RESTRICTIONS ON ENTERING INTO AGREEMENTS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The President may not enter into a bilateral or multilateral agreement authorized by subsection (a) unless the application of the import restrictions set forth in section 307 with respect to archaeologiced or ethnological material of the State Party making a request to the United States under article 9 of the Convention will be applied in concert with similar restrictions implemented, or to be implemented, by those nations (whether or not State Parties) individually having a significant import trade in such material. (2) EXCEPTION TO RESTRICTIONS.—Notwithstanding paragraph
(1), the President may enter into an agreement if he determines that a nation individually having a significant import trade in such material is not implementing, or is not likely to implement, similar restrictions, but— (A) such restrictions are not essential to deter a serious situation of pillage, and (B) the application of the import restrictions set forth in section 307 in concert with similar restrictions implemented, or to be implemented, by other nations (whether or not State Parties) individually having a significant import trade in such material would be of substantial benefit in deterring a serious situation of pillage. (d) SUSPENSION OF IMPORT RESTRICTIONS UNDER AGREEMENTS.—If,
after an agreement enters into force with respect to the United States, the President determines that a number of parties to the agreement (other than parties described in subsection (c)(2)) having significant import trade in the archaeological and ethnological material covered by the agreement— (1) have not implemented within a reasonable period of time import restrictions that are similar to those set forth in section 307, or (2) are not implementing such restrictions satisfactorily with the result that no substantial benefit in deterring a serious situation of pillage in the State Party concerned is being obtained, the President shall suspend the implementation of the import restrictions under section 307 until such time as the nations take appropriate corrective action. (e) EXTENSION OF AGREEMENTS.—The President may extend any agreement that enters into force with respect to the United States for additional periods of not more than five years each if the President determines that—
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