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• United States Code
• TITLE 19 - CUSTOMS DUTIES
• CHAPTER 9 - VISUAL AND AUDITORY MATERIALS OF EDUCATIONAL, SCIENTIFIC, AND CULTURAL CHARACTER

                                   SOURCE
    (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.)
                                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.
    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    articles entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, for consumption, on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.]