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US–Nigeria requests cultural property protection under Art. 9 of the 1970 UNESCO Convention

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On August 20, 2020, the US Department of State published in the Federal Register a notice [Public Notice: 11185]  of receipt of request from Nigeria for cultural property protection under Article 9 of the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property. Nigeria’s request seeks US import restrictions on archaeological and ethnological material representing Nigeria’s cultural patrimony. A public summary of Nigeria’s…

US – President signs Proclamation modifying HTS for AGOA, FTAs

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On December 26, 2019, President Trump signed Proclamation 9974 of December 26, 2019 To Take Certain Actions Under the African Growth and Opportunity Act and for Other Purposes. The Proclamation takes the following actions and modifies the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the US (HTS or HTSUS) as follows: Terminates the designation of Cameroon as a beneficiary sub‑Saharan African country for purposes of section 506A of the Trade Act effective January 1, 2020;Modifies GN 16(a), Note 7(a)…

US – State certifies shrimp harvesting nations

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  On May 26, 2016, the Department of State published in the Federal Register a document [Public Notice: 9584] announcing that on May 3, 2016, it certified that 14 shrimp-harvesting nations (Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Gabon, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, and Suriname) have a regulatory program comparable to that of the United States governing the incidental taking of the relevant species of sea turtles in the course of commercial shrimp…

US – Coast Guard imposes conditions of entry for certain vessels arriving from Nigeria

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On June 12, 2014, the US Coast Guard (USCG) published in the Federal Register a notice [Docket No. USCG–2014–0067] announcing that it will impose conditions of entry on vessels arriving from the Federal Republic of Nigeria, with the exception of vessels arriving from certain ports, effective June 26, 2014. Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. §552(a), 46 U.S.C. §70110, and Department of Homeland Security Delegation No. 0170.1(II)(97)(f) the USCG is authorized to impose conditions of entry on…