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Senate Passes Emergency Import Restrictions on Cultural Artifacts From Syria

The Senate passed on April 13 a bill to impose emergency restrictions on the importation of archeological and ethnological materials from Syria. The bill, H.R. 1493, titled the Protect and Preserve International Cultural Property Act (here), was passed by the…

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House in June 2015, but Senate amendments stripped away most provisions of the House bill, including those creating a U.S. Coordinator for International Cultural Property Protection.