§12.105. Definitions.
19 C.F.R. § 12.105
For purposes of §§ 12.106 through 12.109:
The term pre-Columbian monumental or architectural sculpture or mural means any stone carving or wall art listed in paragraph (b) of this section which is the product of a pre-Columbian Indian culture of Belize, Bolivia, Columbia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru, or Venezuela.
The term <I>stone carving or wall art</I> includes—
Such stone monuments as altars and altar bases, archways, ball court markers, basins, calendars, and calendrical markers, columns, monoliths, obelisks, statues, stelae, sarcophagi, thrones, zoomorphs;
Such architectural structures as aqueducts, ball courts, buildings, bridges, causeways, courts, doorways (including lintels and jambs), forts, observatories, plazas, platforms, facades, reservoirs, retaining walls, roadways, shrines, temples, tombs, walls, walkways, wells;
Architectural masks, decorated capstones, decorative beams of wood, frescoes, friezes, glyphs, graffiti, mosaics, moldings, or any other carving or decoration which had been part of or affixed to any monument or architectural structure, including cave paintings or designs;
Any fragment or part of any stone carving or wall art listed in the preceding subparagraphs.
The term country of origin, as applied to any pre-Columbian monumental or architectural sculpture or mural, means the country where the sculpture or mural was first discovered.
Notes, amendments, and revision history
Amendments
[T.D. 73-119, 38 FR 10807, May 2, 1973, as amended by T.D. 73-151, 38 FR 14677, June 4, 1973; T.D. 73-165, 38 FR 16044, June 20, 1973; 42 FR 42684, Aug. 24, 1977; T.D. 82-145, 47 FR 35477, Aug. 16, 1982]
Authority
Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 19 U.S.C. 66, 1202 (General Note 3(i), Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTSUS)), 1624. Section 12.1 also issued under 21 U.S.C. 371(b); Section 12.3 also issued under 7 U.S.C. 135h, 21 U.S.C. 381; Section 12.4 also issued under 21 U.S.C. 381(b); Section 12.6 also issued under 7 U.S.C. 1854; Section 12.10 also issued under 7 U.S.C. 151-162; Section 12.15 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1558; Section 12.16 also issued under 7 U.S.C. 1592(b); Sections 12.21 through 12.23 also issued under 42 U.S.C. 262; Section 12.26 also issued under 18 U.S.C. 42; Section 12.28 also issued under 18 U.S.C. 42, 19 U.S.C. 1527; Section 12.34 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1202 (additional U.S. Note to Chapter 36, HTSUS); Section 12.37 also issued under 27 U.S.C. 203; Section 12.39 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1337, 1623; Sections 12.40 and 12.41 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1305; Sections 12.42 through 12.44 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1307, Pub. L. 105-61 (111 Stat. 1272), and Public L. 114-125 (130 Stat. 122); Sections 12.73 and 12.74 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1484, 42 U.S.C. 7522, 7601; Section 12.50 also issued under 42 U.S.C. 6301; Section 12.85 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1623, 46 U.S.C. 4302, 4306, 4310; Sections 12.95 through 12.103 also issued under 15 U.S.C. 1241-1245; Sections 12.104 through 12.104i also issued under 19 U.S.C. 2612; Section 12.104j also issued under Pub. L. 108-429, 118 Stat. 2600; 19 U.S.C. 2612; Section 12.104k also issued under Pub. L. 114-151, 130 Stat. 369; 19 U.S.C. 2612; Sections 12.105 through 12.109 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 2094; Sections 12.110 through 12.117 also issued under 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.; Sections 12.118 through 12.127 also issued under 15 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.; Section 12.140 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1484, 2416(a), 2171; Section 12.142 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1484; section 3301 of Pub. L. 110-246. Section 12.150 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1595a and 1618; 22 U.S.C. 401. Section 12.152 also issued under 19 U.S.C. 1484, 1498; the Clean Diamond Trade Act (Pub. L. 108-19, 117 Stat. 631 (19 U.S.C. 3901 et seq.)); Executive Order 13312 dated July 29, 2003.
Source
Source: 28 FR 14710, Dec. 31, 1963, unless otherwise noted.
Amendments
[T.D. 73-119, 38 FR 10807, May 2, 1973, as amended by T.D. 73-151, 38 FR 14677, June 4, 1973; T.D. 73-165, 38 FR 16044, June 20, 1973; 42 FR 42684, Aug. 24, 1977; T.D. 82-145, 47 FR 35477, Aug. 16, 1982]