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U.S. Customs and Border Protection has extended through Jan. 14, 2029, the import restrictions on certain categories of archaeological and ecclesiastical ethnological material originating in Bulgaria.

The designated list of goods covered by these import restrictions can be found here. It includes articles of stone, metal, ceramic, bone, ivory, horn, wood, glass, and faience as well as paintings, textiles, parchment, and mosaics.

CBP is amending this list to expand the dates for covered material (which range from 1.6 million years ago through about 1750 AD for archaeological material and from the beginning of the 4th century AD to about 1900 for ecclesiastical ethnological material), correct minor inconsistencies in the list, and explicitly clarify that wood is covered by the import restrictions on archaeological organic materials.

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