TREATIES AND OTHER INTERNATIONAL ACTS SERIES 20-201 

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CULTURAL EXCHANGES, PROPERTY, AND COOPERATION 

Import Restrictions

Memorandum of Understanding Between the 

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

and JORDAN 

Signed at Amman December 16, 2019 

Entered into force February 1, 2020 
 

 

 

NOTE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

Pursuant to Public Law 89—497, approved July 8, 1966 

(80 Stat. 271; 1 U.S.C. 113)— 

“. . .the Treaties and Other International Acts Series issued 

under the authority of the Secretary of State shall be competent 

evidence . . . of the treaties, international agreements other than 

treaties, and proclamations by the President of such treaties and 

international agreements other than treaties, as the case may be, 

therein contained, in all the courts of law and equity and of maritime 

jurisdiction, and in all the tribunals and public offices of the 

United States, and of the several States, without any further proof 

or authentication thereof.” 
MEMORANDUM OF.UNOERSTANDING 

BETWEEN 

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 

AND 

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE HASHEMITE KINGDOM OF JORDAN . ' 

CONCERNING THE IMPOSITION OF IMPORT RESTRICTIONS 

ON CATEGORIES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL MATERIAL OF JORDAN 

The Government of the United States of America ("the United States") and the 

Government of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan ("Jordan") collectively refeged to as 

the "Parties"; 

Acting pursuant to the 1970 UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and 

Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property, to 

which both countries are S~tes party; and 

Desiring to reduce the incentive for pillage of irreplaceable archaeological material 

representing Jordan's cultural heritage; ; 

Have agreed as follows: 

ARTICLE I 

1. The United States shall, in accordance with its legislation, including the Convention 

on Cultural Property Implementation Act, restrict the importation into the United 

States of certain archaeological material, which includes objects in st@ne, ceramic, 

metal, bone, ivory, shell and other organic materials, glass, faience and semi-precious 

stone, painting, plaster, textiles, basketry, rope, wood, and leather ranging in date 

from about 1.5 million B.C. to A.D. 1750 identified in the list to be promulgated by 

the United States (hereinafter referred to as the Designated List), unless Jordan issues 

a license which certifies that such exportation was not in violation of its laws. 
2. The United States shall offer for return to)ord~ any object or material on the 

Designated List forfeited to the United States. 

3. Such import restrictions shall become effective on the date the Designated List is 

published in the U.S. Federal Register, the,official United States Government 

publication providing fair public notice. 

ARTICLE II 

1. The Parties shall publicize this Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) and the 

· reasons for it. 

2. Jordan shall continue to use its best efforts to maintain and share with the United 

States information about unauthorized excavations, thefts of cultural property; 

trafficking of cultural property, and other threats that jeopardize its cultural 

patrimony. 

'3. Jordan shall continue to use its best efforts to take steps consistent with the 1970 

UNESCO Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Export, 

Import, and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property to protect its cultural 

patrimony. ·To assist in these efforts, the United States shall use its best efforts to 

facilitate technical assistance to Jordan as appropriate under available programs in the 

public and/or private sectors. 

4. Jordan shall continue to use its best efforts to engage other countries having a 

significant import trade in archaeological material from Jordan to deter a serious 

situation of pillage of cultural property. 
5. The Parties shall use best efforts to encoll!age _;further interchange of archaeological 

and heritage objects, including long term loans of such objects, to introduce the rich 

. cultural heritage of Jordan to the public. 

6. The Parties shall continue to endeavor to k,eep the other informed of the measures 

taken to implement this MOU. 

ARTICLE III 

The obligations of the Parties and the activities carried out under this MOU shall be 

subject to their respective laws and regulations, including those with respect to the 

availability of appropriated funds. 

ARTICLE IV 

1. This MOU shall enter into force on February 1, 2020; it shall remain in force for a 

period of five ( 5) years, unless extended. 

2. This MOU may be extended and/or amended only by mutual written consent of the 

Parties. 

3. The Parties shall review the effectiveness ~fthis MOU before the expiration of the 

five (5)-year period in order to determine whether this MOU should be extended. 

4. Either Party may notify the other, in writing through diplomatic channels, of its 

intention to terminate this MOU prior to its date of expiry. In such a case the 

termination shall come into effect six ( 6) months after the date of notification. 

5. Any dispute arising from the interpretation and/ or implementation of this MOU shall 

be resolved amicably by consultations and negotiations between the Parties through 

diplomatic channels. 
IN WITNESS WHEREOF,the undersigned, ~ein~ duly authorized by their respective 

Governments, have signed the present MOU. 

DONE at Amman, this December 16, 2019, in duplicate, in the English and Arabic 

languages, both texts being equally authentic. . 

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF . 

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: THE HASHEMITE KINGDOM OF 

JORDAN: 

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