In July lawyers for dealers, auction houses and museums tried to persuade the State Department's cultural property advisory committee not to recommend renewing the emergency import restrictions on Byzantine ethnological material from Cyprus for another three years.

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Meanwhile, interest rates at emergency lows in the United States have made it disconcertingly easy for emerging markets to import capital.

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President Bush is close to agreeing import quotas and tariffs on foreign steel, it says, and the emergency loan could have been secured with the right effort.

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It would also extend the life span of import restrictions to ten years from five and grant the President the power to impose emergency restrictions on the importation of cultural artifacts from any country in the world, like Afghanistan, not just Unesco-convention parties.

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It would also extend the life span of import restrictions to ten years from five and grant the President the power to impose emergency restrictions on the importation of cultural artifacts from any country in the world, like Afghanistan, not just Unesco convention parties.

FORBES: Collectors Guide