Imposition of Import Restrictions on Categories of Archaeological and Ethnological Material of Nepal

What it does

This document amends U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) regulations to reflect the imposition of import restrictions on certain archaeological and ethnological material from the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal (Nepal). These restrictions are imposed pursuant to an agreement between the United States and Nepal, entered into under the authority of the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act. This document amends the CBP regulations by adding Nepal to the list of countries which have bilateral agreements with the United States imposing cultural property import restrictions and contains the Designated List, describing the archaeological and ethnological material to which the restrictions apply.

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

1 part of Title 19 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

19 CFR 12

Wording on eCFR: the day before it took effect and from the day it took effect (first part listed).

Compared with

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection has published 16 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 14 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

Before this

No earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 1685-AA46 since Jan. 1, 2025.

What happens next and when

Effective on August 12, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Docket USCBP-2026-0991 on Regulations.gov
• Title 19 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register