§ 2051. Implementation of the Agreement; executive designation and duty of Federal agencies

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

1. 1966

   Pub. L. 89–634 § 1 · 80 Stat. 879

   Enacted · 19 U.S.C. § 2051

   Pub. L. 89–634, § 1, Oct. 8, 1966, 80 Stat. 879

   Source evidence

   Code source credit
   Pub. L. 89–634, § 1, Oct. 8, 1966, 80 Stat. 879

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   (1) Part 6 of schedule 8 of the Tariff Schedules of the United States (19 U.S.C. 1202) is amended by inserting after the 77A Stat. 427 heading to such part 6 the following: “Part 6 headnote: “1. No article shall be exempted from duty under item 870.30 unless a Federal agency or agencies designated by the President determines that such article is visual or auditory material of an educational, scientific, or cultural character within the meaning of the Agreement for Facilitating the International Circulation of Visual and Auditory Materials of an Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Character. Whenever the President determines that there is or may be profit-making exhibition or use of articles described in item 870.30 which interferes significantly (or threatens to interfere significantly) with domestic production of similar articles, he may prescribe regulations imposing restrictions on the entry of such foreign articles to insure that they will be exhibited or used only for nonprofit making purposes.”

2. 1991

   Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993

   Pub. L. 102–138 title II § 207 · 105 Stat. 647

   Inserted · 19 U.S.C. § 2051

   Pub. L. 102–138 inserted provisions at end limiting the authority of a Federal agency or agencies to fail to qualify visual or auditory material as being of international educational character and providing that any material that receives a certificate of international educational character not be labeled as propaganda

   Source evidence

   Code amendment note
   Pub. L. 102–138 inserted provisions at end limiting the authority of a Federal agency or agencies to fail to qualify visual or auditory material as being of international educational character and providing that any material that receives a certificate of international educational character not be labeled as propaganda.

   Enacted provision · exact public law section
   SEC. 207. IMPLEMENTATION OF BEIRUT AGREEMENT. The first section of the joint resolution entitled “Joint resolution to give effect to the Agreement for facilitating the International Circulation of Visual and Auditory Materials of an Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Character, approved at Beirut in 1948”, approved October 8, 1966 (19 U.S.C. 2051), is amended by adding at the end the following: “In carrying out this section, such Federal agency or agencies may not consider visual or auditory material to fail to qualify as being of international educational character— “(1) because it advocates a particular position or viewpoint, whether or not it presents or acknowledges opposing viewpoints; “(2) because it might lend itself to misinterpretation, or to misrepresentation of the United States or other countries, or their people or institutions; “(3) because it is not representative, authentic, or accurate or does not represent the current state of factual knowledge of a subject or aspect of a subject unless the material contains widespread and gross misstatements of fact; “(4) because it does not augment international understanding and goodwill, unless its primary purpose or effect is not to instruct or inform through the development of a subject or an aspect of a subject and its content is not such as to maintain, increase, or diffuse knowledge; or “(5) because in the opinion of the agency the material is propaganda. “Such Federal agency or agencies may not label as propaganda any material that receives a certificate of international educational character under this section and the Agreement.”.

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