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19 USC CHAPTER 9 - VISUAL AND AUDITORY MATERIALS OF

EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC, AND CULTURAL

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TITLE 19 - CUSTOMS DUTIES

CHAPTER 9 - VISUAL AND AUDITORY MATERIALS OF EDUCATIONAL,

SCIENTIFIC, AND CULTURAL CHARACTER

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CHAPTER 9 - VISUAL AND AUDITORY MATERIALS OF EDUCATIONAL,

SCIENTIFIC, AND CULTURAL CHARACTER

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Sec.

2051. Implementation of the Agreement; executive designation and

duty of Federal agencies.

2052. Assistance from other Federal agencies; facilities and

personnel.

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19 USC Sec. 2051 01/06/03

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TITLE 19 - CUSTOMS DUTIES

CHAPTER 9 - VISUAL AND AUDITORY MATERIALS OF EDUCATIONAL,

SCIENTIFIC, AND CULTURAL CHARACTER

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Sec. 2051. Implementation of the Agreement; executive designation

and duty of Federal agencies

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The President of the United States is authorized to designate a

Federal agency or agencies which shall be responsible for carrying

out the provisions of the Agreement for Facilitating the

International Circulation of Visual and Auditory Materials of an

Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Character and a related

protocol of signature, opened for signature at Lake Success on July

15, 1949 (hereinafter in this chapter referred to as the

''Agreement''). It shall be the duty of the Federal agency or

agencies so designated to take appropriate measures for the

carrying out of the provisions of the Agreement including the

issuance of regulations. 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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(Pub. L. 89-634, Sec. 1, Oct. 8, 1966, 80 Stat. 879; Pub. L.

102-138, title II, Sec. 207, Oct. 28, 1991, 105 Stat. 693.)

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AMENDMENTS

1991 - 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.

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EX. ORD. NO. 11311. IMPLEMENTATION OF BEIRUT AGREEMENT RELATING TO

AUDIO-VISUAL MATERIALS

Ex. Ord. No. 11311, Oct. 14, 1966, 31 F.R. 13413, provided:

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the

United States, including the provisions of the Joint Resolution of

October 8, 1966, Public Law 89-634 (this chapter and amendment to

section 1202 of this title), and section 301 of Title 3 of the

United States Code, I hereby order and proclaim that -

1. Pursuant to section 3(b) of the Joint Resolution, the

amendments to the Tariff Schedules of the United States made by

section 3(a) of the Joint Resolution shall apply with respect to

articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption, on

and after January 1, 1967.

2. Pursuant to the ''Agreement for Facilitating the International

Circulation of Visual and Auditory Materials of an Educational,

Scientific and Cultural Character'', made at Beirut in 1948, the

Joint Resolution, and headnote 1 to schedule 8, part 6 of the

Tariff Schedules of the United States, the United States

Information Agency is hereby designated as the agency to carry out

the provisions of the Agreement and related protocol, and to make

any determinations and to prescribe any regulations required by

headnote 1. Lyndon B. Johnson.

(For abolition of United States Information Agency (other than

Broadcasting Board of Governors and International Broadcasting

Bureau), transfer of functions, and treatment of references

thereto, see sections 6531, 6532, and 6551 of Title 22, Foreign

Relations and Intercourse.)

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19 USC Sec. 2052 01/06/03

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TITLE 19 - CUSTOMS DUTIES

CHAPTER 9 - VISUAL AND AUDITORY MATERIALS OF EDUCATIONAL,

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Sec. 2052. Assistance from other Federal agencies; facilities and

personnel

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Agencies of the Federal Government are authorized to furnish

facilities and personnel for the purpose of assisting the agency or

agencies designated by the President in carrying out the provisions

of the Agreement.

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(Pub. L. 89-634, Sec. 2, Oct. 8, 1966, 80 Stat. 879.)

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